[DaSHacka]

Surprising, common sentiment among current college-aged zoomers currently advocates the opposite.

I frequently see posts convinced CS/Art jobs will be completely automated by AI in just a few years, and the only way to be safe is to get a business degree and go into management.

I think a lot of it is overblown, but I've already seen a few friends switch their degrees over it.

[mnky9800n]

I do kind of agree with Jensen Huangs statement about this recently where he says don't learn to code but instead learn a domain deeply. Actually I think you should do both. Understanding how to "computationalize" a domain problem is a very valuable skill.

[radiojosh]

This seems huge if you can do it. I'm guessing a company like Intuit pays top dollar for job candidates with a double major in finance and computer science.

[imtringued]

Those people must be stupid. First of all, CS does have programming classes to get you started, but they expect you to just be able to do it past the fourth semester. The classes without any programming are just as relevant as before. Finally, you also get to build the thing that is supposedly taking your job away, so you are just replacing one thing to do with another.

There are management and business focused CS degrees in Germany with significant overlap in the courses.

[cranberryturkey]

You don’t go take a management job out of college

[justinclift]

That's not strictly true. When I worked at IBM, they had a graduate program which quite literally fast tracked very high achieving college graduates straight into management ranks.

It was also the only time I've worked with recent college graduates that actually had a clue, instead of being complete morons needing a few years of experience in order to be useful.

It changed my opinion of college graduates, to "maybe they're not all idiots after all...". ;)