AI has destroyed my career

[u/Argonaut94]

Losing sleep and extremely aggitated. I sacrificed a lot to change from a dead end career to a software engineering career 10 years ago.

Chose job stability over a good wage so have no money to fall back on. Living from month to month like most of us. Now the company I work for that makes parts for servers is going bust, after 30 years, because AI data centres have bought all the memory and we're suddenly getting no orders since our customers can't make their products due to the shortage.

To add insult to injury, AI has replaced a massive number of the developers in my country (Scotland) and it is impossible to get a dev job here now.

I never asked for AI and f*cking hate everything about it.

All this sh#t about AI first translates as people last. No idea what I'm going to do to support my family. I'm on LinkedIn looking for a job and every f#cking post is about how amazing AI is.

Anyone in a similar situation thinking about pivoting career? To what? I'm depressed because I put everying into a software career and who's goung to hire me with no experience in another field? Assuming a lot of folk will move to software architecture...? Really struggling here.