Fiddling with the computer-science curriculum still might not be enough to maintain coding’s spot at the top of the higher-education hierarchy.

“Coding, or the translation of a precise design into software instructions, is dead,” Balazinska told GeekWire via email. “AI can do that. We have never graduated coders.

Computer science education will probably focus less on coding and more on computational thinking and A.I. literacy, said Mary Lou Maher, a director of the Computing Research Association.