u/EmotionalConflict487

I am in confusion someone help me out. I am a full stack developer with 4+ years of work experience in react, node, python. I resigned a few months back and I am currently unemployed. I keep getting calls for python full stack development roles. I say okay and attend the screening/interviews. I've mostly gotten questions on django/react/sql/system design and some cloud experience and dsa.

Due to these interviews I am unable to upskill in the domain I want to get into. I want to get into agentic AI development/applied AI development/AI engineering/gen AI but I'll be thinking about full stack development, django, react, dsa, system design and my whole day just goes into mentally recovering from interviews or doing the assignment for interviews.

So my mind is a mess because if I get into AI prep, my mind isn't huge enough to store all this information. I had a interview today and I was doing dsa in Javascript but I kept writing print print everywhere instead of console.log.

Do I pause giving interviews and just focus on studying AI engineering/python? I am confused and overwhelmed.

Around 10 years ago, the same big tech leaders started a narrative that "college degrees are not needed" and that "you can learn everything from youtube" blah blah, we were pushed with some very inspiring stories of college dropout success stories.

Now fast forward 10 years later, the same big tech leaders are pushing the narrative that AI is going to replace everyone. Software engineers are not needed anymore.

But, when we compare their narratives 10 years ago to now. They still prioritize people from top colleges and degrees. They want PhD graduates working on their AI models.

Doesn't that contradict the claims they made 10 years ago?

So yes, their claims are highly targeted to benefit something. If you ever lose hope on this industry, remember the college dropouts narrative era 10 years ago. Colleges degrees matter and software engineers are needed, right now they want to make money off AI.

Don't stop learning.