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by codingdave 208 days ago
If you are getting your degree only in order to get a job, you should just drop out and get a job.

Hopefully you are getting a degree in order to educate yourself, broaden your skills and thinking, and have deep enough knowledge and critical thought to bring completely new ideas and innovations to your area of expertise.

With that goal in mind, CS as a degree absolutely gives you the base knowledge needed to roll with whatever changes come to the industry. To be one of the people who can sort through the hype to understand where AI truly works or does not, and build working solutions using whatever new tech comes to the world. If your program is fulfilling the goal of making you one of those people, it is worth sticking with it. If it is not making you one of those people, we're back to telling you just to go get a job.

But please do not fall into the trap of thinking that the purpose of a college degree is just to pass some gate to get your first job.