u/Emergency_End_2930

I am currently studying artificial intelligence. The more I follow the news and talk to my professors, the more doubts I have about the direction I chose.

I follow AI industry updates every day and at the same time I’m building a company in this field alongside my studies. But the material we go through at university already feels outdated in many ways, and a lot of it is no longer relevant in my opinion. In general, professors seem to say similar things, while some just stay silent. It also feels like they are not aware of AI products that have been around for more than three years. The level of awareness of the people teaching me sometimes feels like Windows XP, a good system, but no longer matching modern standards. I don’t want to sound arrogant, so I don’t really speak up about it, but when you see this, questions appear that even AI doesn’t clearly answer.

Because I work on my own projects in parallel, I’ve noticed that understanding complex problems has become much easier. It feels like assembling IKEA furniture or building with LEGO. I understand that AI is not always reliable, but with proper validation and testing I already have several fully working projects, even though my understanding of the deeper structure is still quite поверхностный (surface-level). This is both fascinating and somewhat confusing.

Sometimes it feels like being a DJ who plays someone else’s music and still gets applause. In a way, society already works like this. Many people receive attention and recognition without building things from scratch.

So what am I getting at… I’ve been trying for a while to understand what the job market will look like in the near future.

If we consider a China–Taiwan scenario, geopolitical events could strongly affect the industry. But the technology has already developed enough that even in its current state it can replace a large number of workers, especially with local models and robotics.

Overall, it seems that corporations are less interested in hiring new employees and more focused on optimization and cost reduction. What I don’t understand is how they plan to make money if people lose purchasing power. What will demand be based on?

In this logic, it feels like the very nature of capitalism is changing. Sometimes it even starts to look like a form of digital feudalism, where large corporations concentrate resources and competing with them becomes almost impossible.

So what are people supposed to do? Become more self-sufficient, grow food, leave cities? But even there, corporations are already buying land, for example for data centers.

I don’t know… what do you think?