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Re:Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years? by ushakov on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:34AM (#31567929)
that’s why people need a CS degree

to understand what they are actually doing

but companies don’t care, all they want is that lemon juice extracted by cheap labour

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Re:Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years? by capableweb on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:51AM (#31568060)
> that’s why people need a CS degree

That's the wrong takeaway. Plenty of people know how to build "what's needed" instead of "what's requested", CS degree or not.

I'm not super confident it correlates at all, but if I were to make a guess, I'd say that people with CS degrees are more likely to focus on the wrong things (eg: take requirements as they are without thinking about the why and optimize the requirements given to them) compared to people who got into tech other ways. But that's just based on anecdotal data, won't apply everywhere and so on.

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Re:Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years? by ushakov on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:56AM (#31568087)
is obedience bad though?

companies love obedience!

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Re:Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years? by Kelm on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:44AM (#31568003)
Having a degree and „understanding what you are actually doing” might be correlated, but that doesn’t imply causation. At least my small sample size of experiences would suggest otherwise.
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Re:Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years? by Glawen on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:48AM (#31568034)
Why it has to be a CS degree? It is about requirements management and many non CS degree use this skill (typical in engineering)
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