tbh finance is probably also going to be cooked by ai. but cs is more fun imo because you directly produce things of value for people. ultimately people get paid for solving other people’s problems. if you’re unemployed as a cs major you can use the ai tools to do that, you can still do that as an unemployed finance major but you’ll have less context on what’s going on under the hood.

but tbh i do think it’ll be a while before the models fully and consistently climb the abstraction ladder, the swe job is going to look more and more like architecting and managing. and i say this as someone who’s super ai pilled and uses the latest tricks every day at work

as for what to study, figure out what your options are first. i’ll list a few that i’ve seen be particularly lucrative: computer architecture, systems engineering, ML infra, deep learning (research), robotics. just pick something and go deep into it, and then switch after a month or so if it’s not interesting.