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To be fair, the second person is more than likely pursuing more advanced education than a CS BSc (PhD)

> niche domains

I’m not sure if I would call movies and video games “niche”.

If you get a CS degree and end up doing UIs/forms in React then something along the way went very very wrong.

yeah one person makes a shit ton of money wondering if they needed a degree at all, and the other person ends up getting overworked for pennies and no equity in movies and gaming studios

You realize that there are 2.7 million software developers in the US? Outside of the HN bubble, most are “dark matter developers”.