There is no in between.
For context I am a senior computer engineering student. I did some internships and talked with many people from big companies. And the thing I realized is I can’t avoid AI anymore.
It’s physically impossible. I resisted for years but every single fucking place is forcing it nowadays. Internships, jobs, any competitions and even my damn professors at uni.
I have yet to meet a single person in real life that does not use AI extensively. No one cares. No one thinks it might be wrong to fuck up so many things for so little (sometimes none) gain.
So I’m at a loss nowadays. I have zero motivation to do anything. I applied for masters but who can guarantee it will be any different? I will either have to use AI like any slop-coder out there or just starve. Even though I’m a hardware guy. I dont even want to think about software devs.
Fuck every single tech CEO. Fuck every single capitalist. So many people complained about the previous generation because of what they left us. But what are we doing now? Are we any better?
Sorry for unorganized and sloppy writing. Just had to dump this somewhere. Have a nice day everyone.
Always
Be
Constantly learning
(regardless of trends)
The tech debt that these assholes are generating is either going to cause collapse of the companies and systems, or they’re going to have to be fixed. Plan for both.
I get discouraged a lot of times seeing others just generate in some days what would have taken me months. But your point is what I keep in mind and it encourages me again. You can either stand still and externalize your brain to the cloud (trend) or actually develop it on your own (timeless).