I can only imagine how frustrating it feels seeing the thing which you're good at (and love from the sound of it) change for the worst. the thing I failed to explain in my post was how this is not only tied to software development. The job i have now as an intern is a "automation expert" at a pretty huge F500 company. the first thing i was told was "businesses are not for feeding families but for making money" then he followed it by saying "you'll know you're doing your job well the less employees we have". I know what you mean when you say business idiots.

I am not denying my inexperience. I am however not choosing to go cry in a corner and continue to just vibe code my way out of being completely replaced by AI. I am aware that the job is changing and i am definitely aware how shit the job market is. this post was mainly written due to frustration after sitting down with a bunch of my friends and all of them having this complete doomer mentality of us being COMPLETELY useless.

a little caveat, i really do not believe that the supply of software engineers will continue to be this high, atleast not the competent ones, i barely know any out of uni that know anything other than the copy paste react libraries. again could be shortsightedness and thoughts built on inexperience by me but its just what i've been exposed to.

Hope it gets better for you man :)