I've been agonizing a lot over how to best spend my time. I've considered reading books (DDIA, for example), diving deeper into CS fields (college always felt a bit too shallow/meaningless to me), or learning more about C++/Rust/other languages. Clearly, I'm suffering a bit of analysis paralysis right now, and I would appreciate some advice on what to do.
The rise of agentic AI makes things even more confusing. I don't use tools like Claude Code/Codex/Copilot to code at all --- as a soon-to-be junior SWE, is that something I should start diving deep into? I really have no interest in it, and it frankly makes be a bit depressed to use it.