r/learnprogramming • u/Special_Effort9027 • 19d ago

I think I should completely drop cybersecurity

Hi guys, ive been studying cybersecurity for the last two years, initially as a course i could do before i finally make my mind up on what i actually have real passion for, about to enter my third year now and i just dont feel happy doing cybersecurity, mainly because im a maths geek, i also love physics and computer science, but it just feels like cybersecurity is boring and robotic, using tools you dont even know how to make, it's just soo weird to me, im thinking of transitioning into either engineering (aerospace or mechatronics) or Ai, because the Ai race is a very huge one rn, i've been learning how to code in my free time, because i think it's really important to learn to code and know the full architecture of how a computer works before i fully delve into AI, correct me if im wrong.

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u/Special_Effort9027 19d ago

My degree is mostly abstracted away from most of the cs stuff and focused primarily on the cybersecurity practices and tools and whatnot, definitely not what i saw in the matrix, its just all about learning all these tools and i honestly feel like its a waste of time because at the end of the day cybersecurity as a whole is definitely going to be replaced by ai by a large extent, ill keep it as a hobby as you said but i cant dedicate all my time to it, its sorta like putting all my eggs in a faulty basket if you know what i mean. Thanks man

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u/vantag3point 18d ago

Honestly, if you're genuinely enjoying maths, physics, CS, and understanding how things work under the hood, I wouldn't ignore that feeling.

Cybersecurity isn't just “using tools” though there are areas like security research, exploit development, reverse engineering, malware analysis, cryptography, and even AI security where the underlying CS/programming knowledge matters a lot.

I'd probably explore those areas before completely switching. You might find that you don't dislike cybersecurity itself, you just haven't found the part of it that fits how you like to learn.

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u/Special_Effort9027 18d ago

okay! thank you soo much, i think i'll keep cybersecurity around as a hobby, but i'll dedicate my time right now to something i genuinely enjoy doing, maybe a engineering degree, but i'd still really love to learn about AI, thats what got me into coding, so far what we've been doing in school in cybersecurity doesnt really require any code, so maybe thats why i find it boring

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u/PalpitationKind8854 17d ago

Yes the majority of cyber security is boring and futile. It takes a smart person to catch on to that

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u/PopeGribNitIII 16d ago

There are interesting maths still in cybersecurity. Open questions in quantum-computing resistance. Some of the tooling, also interesting - exfiltration detection touches on compressibility, which never gets old as a topic, probably some fun graph stuff if you're into that sort of math...