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There have always been ways to not do the work, even before AI or online classes. I always tried to make my students think of it as wasting money (either theirs or their parents) paying for school and not learning. Once in a while a student would argue employers only cared about the diploma and I would always encourage them to drop out and become the next Mark Zuckerberg. The truth is, teens and young adults are not ready yet to understand this and my hope was someone would remember my words in the future, just as I understood some of my teachers advice way after I took their classes.
A lot of employers only care about the diploma. They use it to weed out applicants. I'm really stuck out here without one when I can easily perform many jobs. What's crazy is that I can make more money without one than those jobs but I don't want to work nights and weekends. I just don't see the value of 4 years of school if jobs are only paying $20/hr.
Life is a gamble... for now you feel like you don't need it but eventually the HR algorithms are going to put a ceiling there just because you don't have a diploma. Working under someone who stopped thinking when they graduated or used AI to cheat can be miserable.
FWIW some people recommend getting a minimum-effort degree... but I would advocate taking advantage of the detour and studying something interesting (which may mean getting an MS). YMMV.