Ask HN: How to Pick a Specialisation?

[dizzydiz]

I’m broadly interested in many areas of CS, but not in anything specific.

I’d like to do meaningful work.

I would like to hear from people who have specialised as to how they chose their field.

Does it matter all that much?

[eimrine]

> I’d like to do meaningful work.

Commercial CS is about stealing somebody's attention to make advertisements being watched and all kinds of dark patterns. Personally I have never seen a programmer (except of some pure scientists) which would not be an asshole just doing everything he's being told, for money, no matter how harmful.