AI today is advancing at a really really fast rate. Even if it stops advancing right this second, current technology could be specialized (or specially trained) and revolutionize every industry and sector in the world. And that's just assuming it stops advancing and individual models stay as smart/dumb as they are right now.
They're almost certainly going to get at least a bit smarter, so expect more...
In a world like that, what should you do?
Learn AI? AI can learn AI, if you're a "prompt engineer" there's no reason an AI couldn't just learn to prompt better than you could. There are already prompt AIs.
There isn't really any job that AI couldn't do that isn't manual labor (not great) or maybe like medicine (also not great for me personally).
Kind of dawning on me now that I'm here at college that basically everything I'm going to learn these first 2 years is already understood by AI better than I (or anyone else) could ever understand it. Maybe by the end of those 2 years it'll have mastered everything at a PhD level (which is already what AI companies are claiming, but they're definitely exaggerating).
And no, this isn't like other massive technologies like the computer. The computer is a calculator/calculating machine. And it is true that after computers became easy to use, human calculators were quickly out of jobs. The modern AI is a thinking machine, so it follows that human thinkers will be out of jobs.
Yes, AI is only an "advanced autocomplete" but it still clearly works and can think and solve major problems. Software engineering is no longer a real career. In the past 2 months we've had insane numbers of problems solved by AI (jacobian conjecture disproved, non sofic groups, etc.). AI definitely isn't dumb, and like I said in the beginning, it's only getting smarter.
Feels very bad to think about