This was a long time coming. I graduated in 2021, and while the UC Berkeley computer science program is still absolutely stellar, it was starting to collapse under its own weight. While it scaled admirably, there are limits. I TA’ed operating systems (CS162) my last two semesters, and the office hours queue would fill up immediately upon starting, and due to an ever-shrinking number of course staff due to budget limitations, we were never able to get to everyone who wanted help. We’re talking several hundred students with less than a dozen TAs. This situation was not uncommon across other courses. The absolute smallest non-graduate-level CS course I took had around 100-150 students.