I will likely never graduate, which is rather inconvenient.
In my senior year of high school when I saw o1 release, I thought if AI continued to get significantly better, I would not go to university and instead go into the trades. o3 came out and blew me away, but I went to university anyways because I got my fancy Waterloo Engineering offer which I worked very hard for, and was much less weird than leaving it and going "trust me bro the robots are coming".
The writing is very much on the wall at this point. I am very unsure about what the correct move is / what I "should" be doing right now. When I see people on here talk about giving advice to young people, they generally go "I have no idea what to tell them, stay away from SWE I guess?"
Morale is very low, as it seems like nothing I do particularly changes anything on a timescale of >3 years, and as the models get better and better, the actions I take become more and more unimportant. When I say unimportant, I primarily mean career wise / social-status wise, which is what I primarily care about.
Some possible life paths I have:
Most of these options are enormous shifts from the very "safe and stable" life path I was on, which is inconvenient.