Comment Re:Counciling a young potential CS major (Score 1) 37
It depends. When you take it seriously, enjoy it and have talent, an applied CS or IT degree makes you an expert of which there never will be enough. If you "just want a job", CS/IT is a really bad choice though.
Management is still fighting the idea that engineering works needs qualified engineers (and a good applied CS degree is effectively an engineering degree even if typically not called that), but my take is that when the current AI insanity collapses, it will be another step to the general recognition that IT is really hard when you need to do it right. And at least Europe is on the way to warranties (software warranty for end-users is already there) and liability (NIS2/KRITIS is a preliminary step) for IT products and services. And that will mean things get a lot more professional than the currently so common half-assing of things.
Hence I would anybody with the interest and talent still encourage to go into it.