Should a soon-to-graduate CS student still pursue a Software Engineering career?
I'm graduating this semester and as most students I'm very worried with the future of software engineering, especially with starting positions being less valued now with agentic coding tools like Claude.
Software Engineering and architecture has been my favorite area, even though I have some liking for others like AI, Cybersec, etc. But I'm seriously questioning whether it's the smart choice currently. Should I pivot to AI? Do a masters on LLMs or something maybe? Or maybe another option? Or am I overreacting and should keep on the Software Engineering path?
Is it over after all, even though there are optimistic people saying it's not? I mean, even if Claude won't replace all of us wouldn't the increase in productivity will mean less jobs and less pay simply because of supply and demand?
Would really like some realistic, critical advice here.