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CS enrollment booms and busts. It was booming just before 2001, and then it was something no one wanted to do for a few years, then it was booming before 2008, and then...again...it fell out of favor for a few years before coming back again. This happened in the 70s, 80s, and 90s as well. It isn't just a culture change, we are simply in a cycle.

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According to the article, the peak was between 2004-2005 (I guess all the people who went into CS before the dotcom bubble exploded graduated then).

Which means we're due for possibly the biggest cohort of fresh CS grads in about 3 more years. Fun times

"Peak CS" was last year.

Not every school has peaked, but many have.

It will drop for the next 5 to 10 years.

(FAANG hiring freezes will disincentive students...)

Enrolment sure, but the charts show that more people graduate years after the bubble.

Meaning last year may have been the largest CS enrolment class, but we won't see the largest fresh graduate class for a few years still

The peaks are local (ML joke?). Every boom bust cycle the peaks getting higher...

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