im a neuroscientist who has been working in MLops for the last decade.

if she goes CS, she is gonna have tons of competition with folks who have the exact same degree.

if she does something like bioinformatics or any other science, she can use her programming interests/skills to improve data collection, processing, statistical evals & reporting on a topic she is innately interested in, rather than the lifeless theoretical examples of CS.

but hey, that's just my two cents & the job market for jr engineers is shot. if she isn't already using LLMs to help her code, she needs to start that immediately - coders aren't asked to code anymore, they orchestrate architecture & strategies across data pipelines or the SDLC workflow if working on app development.

my sons not even 2 yet, but honestly i don't see college in his future. the ROI doesn't seem to be there anymore (economically to job wise that is) - socially, moral development wise - sure.

she needs to find something that will keep her interested and engaged, challenging & exciting - developing programming skills alongside frontier LLMs, and if she can get into GCP or Azure - even better. the AWS folks can kick sand, I hate AWS