I feel completely lost both career and identity-wise. I think I should pivot careers. Engineering? Trade school? Law school? Medicine? Who knows. The problem is, any, high paying, knowledge related field seems under threat. It feels impossible to predict the future and so I am not comfortable putting my chips anywhere.

On the other hand, I could try to improve my CS skills (as depressing as the field feels right now), hope that AI slows down and I get a job so I can go back to a masters program in god-knows-what that is "ai proof".

Any advice is appreciated. I hope that this post can be useful for others in my situation because finding good resources that are not extremely biased seems hard.

--------------Here is why I believe what I believe---------------------

Seeing the rapid pace at which AI is improving, I have little hope that SWE (or math) is a viable a career path. If you asked me a year ago, I would never have thought AI would have gotten this good.

The big moments for me have been the release of Fable/Mythos 5 and OpenAI's disproof of the unit distance conjecture (and yes I know, disproofs using counterexamples are less impressive that proof).

I subscribe to the idea that anything AI can do well or okay at now, it will be excellent at in the near future. Although somewhat unfalsifiable, we have seen examples of this such as in writing or art and I see no reason for this to not happen to computer science and math (if we haven't already seen it with Mythos and OpenAI's disproof). I expect mass layoffs in SWE around when I graduate (2028).