As coding boom fades, computer science grads focus on AI skills in choppy job market
AP: Computer science student Jack Zemke was getting nowhere despite sending out hundreds of job applications that mostly disappeared into the void – ignored. With his graduation from Tulane University just days away, he was considering moving back in with his parents when he got a break thanks to a group project he had worked on involving an AI-powered search tool. As he touted it at an engineering conference, an employee at a civil engineering firm approached.