If you study coding at your university, you will be a stupid code monkey. However on proper universities you'll study much less coding, but Software Engineering

If you study coding at your university, you will be a stupid code monkey. However on proper universities you'll study much less coding, but Software Engineering or Computer Sciences, which teaches engineering and science. Not just QA, also mathematical foundations, writing proofs, writing science papers, writing compilers, doing AI, understanding HW, doing proper project management, with plans and tests. Pity that he didn't go to a proper uni. Writing quality software is a solved problem, just not applied in most companies.