The Professor is Live! with Mark Salisbury
The Professor is Live! with Mark Salisbury is a short, practical conversation about life in the age of artificial intelligence. In each fast-paced episode, Mark Salisbury and producer Rikko Smart explore how AI is changing work, school, leadership, and everyday life through stories from the news, expert guests, live audience interaction, humor, and the occasional sarcastic observation. Because in an age of intelligent machines, human judgment still matters.
The Professor is Live! with Mark Salisbury
Episode 9 – Can ChatGPT Replace Software Engineers?
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In this episode, Mark and producer Rikko are joined by Dr. Joel Schuessler, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Concordia University St. Paul (CSP), to tackle the big career question shaking up tech: can you still make a living coding when AI now writes roughly 25% of U.S. code at companies like Microsoft and Alphabet? A new Pew Research Center survey shows nearly half of Americans think software engineering will be among the jobs most disrupted by AI — even more than teaching or journalism. Tune in for a candid, lively conversation about what these trends mean for students, developers, and the future of coding itself.