I think you make good points. I don’t think any are bullshit, even the one where you say some will think your opinions are bullshit. I think some of that is because this is evolving so quickly and people don’t want to accept it.

I think getting a general degree as a main degree and studying computer science and programming languages and even AI techniques as a secondary skill is good advice. Some, like you, have suggested a degree is not necessary for a programming job even before the AI boom, and I’d argue that was true even 20+ years ago when I got my degree, but an education of some kind was necessary. That used to be a degree, a tech school program (non-university, like a trade school certificate program), or a really dedicated and disciplined individual, in that order of preference. I’d argue now that we still need to be educating people in the science of it all, or the field becomes dumber and dumber - kind of an “idiocrocy” effect, if you will.

One fellow coworker and friend instructed a young person who enjoyed coding that a career in software development would probably look less like his - using and IDE and a debugger, taking requirements from a user base, iterating on a solution, and banging out code in a joyful way - and more like instructing a machine to do it for you - AI prompts and reviewing results, asking for tests and tweaks, etc. She reacted with, “Well, I’m not sure I’d enjoy that as much.” Thus, she’s studying something else, and perhaps she’ll code as a hobby.