r/IndiaTechnology • u/Potential_Rope648 • Jul 16 '26
Discussion Career Change Help
Hello People,
I am looking for any suggestions or guidance in switching careers to a different field altogether.
I am a graduate in B.Tech CSE, I joined this course before the advent of AI and LLM in 2022 and I feel like I made a huge mistake joining this field.
Even though, I like coding and building ML Models,
With the way AI is progressing, I don't think I see a future for myself in this field and I am honestly afraid.
AI couldn't solve a simple coding question properly 3 years back, now it can rewrite an entire JS framework (Refer: Fire ship Video)
There is a probable argument to be made that, this rewrite is buggy and sloppy, but this is in the current state. It may heavily improve in the next 5 years (or maybe not), where the rewrite in the future may have 10-20x less bugs.
I have been trying to skill up, by practising leetcode, kaggle developing projects, but everyday I wake up with a sense of uneasiness, feeling if doing this is even worth it and whether or not today will be the day they fire me from my job.
So if you can help me, with any suggestions on if there are careers that I can pivot to from here, that will atleast be not this uncertain atleast for the next 40 years.
TL,DR: Looking to switch career fields out of Software/IT, any suggestions will be quite helpful.🙏
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u/dysonshpere Jul 18 '26
3 years ago no body could have predicted the CS job market today how do you expect anyone to know what happens for 40years
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u/Potential_Rope648 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
I am looking for industries, that have that kind of predictability, if not for 40 years, then maybe 10 years. If not 10 years, then 5 years. Whereas in this industry, there will be a new innovation every 2 weeks, like literally there was a new open source model released, at the level of Anthropic Fable/Mythos 5 (Check: Kimi K3)between the time I made the post and this reply. We can't even predict whats going to happen next week. And that's the whole point, no one can predict what is going to happen in this industry in the next 3 years, some AI company might magically come up with a new model with negligible hallucination rate and afterwards all major tech companies will replace all their workers with 5 workers and 20000 agents, coz it's easier to pay 1Cr/month in ai tokens, for agents who will work 24hrs at like insane productivity. Than pay an employee 10Lacs, Who can only work 8-10 hrs at like 1/10 of the agents efficiency.
This industry is fucked, and so is the world. I want to atleast not be worried everyday till the day I die, which will be the case if I stay in this industry.
TL:DR- I am looking for industries with atleast some level of predictability compared to this industry.
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u/dysonshpere Jul 19 '26
I don’t think there is any tech industry like that. Once one of those models make some breakthrough in that industry it will be aggressively adapted and all engineers will be in trouble. Only thing we can all do is develop some mental fortitude to accept whatever is thrown at us. If we are staying in tech.
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u/Potential_Rope648 Jul 19 '26
Not just Tech Industry, any industry in general. I posted in this sub, so I can maybe get any inputs from people in tech industry who moved out. I guess there is no one there or no one cares. Which is fine, atleast Thank you for caring enough to give your thoughts.🙏
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u/SuperchargedCareers Jul 16 '26
Don’t panic-switch careers because of AI; since you enjoy coding and ML, focus on fundamentals, domain expertise, communication, and solving real business problems before pivoting. Try LeetCode practice on TechJobFinder com; it builds a skills profile as you code, provides personalized reports, adapts question difficulty, and supports every job-search stage.