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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
(www.businessinsider.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
To have a piece of paper to get a job.
For CS this is nothing new we have been dealing with graduates who can't program, and self-taught geniuses, since before the AI boom so paper credentials just aren't as important.
Companies love paper certificates because that means they can outsource judging applicant qualifications. How bad that is differs from company to company and field to field.
I mean if you're a small non-IT company, say a machine shop, and you're looking for a devops and you have no IT department and noone understands anything about what that person is going to do but "is going to run our website and sales platform"... what else are you going to rely on but paper certificates? Hire a consultancy?