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From New York Times, I'm Michael Boboro.
This is The Daily.
For the past decade, a simple message has been delivered to a generation of American students.
If you learn to code and get a computer science degree,
then you'll get a job with a six-figure salary.
But as my colleague Natasha Singer found out,
thousands of students who followed that advice are discovering that the promise was empty.
It's Monday, September 29th.
Natasha.
Michael.
Thank you for coming back on the show.
Thanks for having me.
You and Natasha came to us with a counterintuitive observation,
which is that at this moment that on paper seems like a highly lucrative opportunity in the world of tech because of the boom in artificial intelligence,
this moment is turning out to be a bust for those recent college grads trying to get into the tech industry.
That's unexpected.
It's completely unexpected.
We've seen Over the last two years,