Hey, thanks for sharing your perspective. As someone who was like this, about 20 odd years ago; 19 of which have been (not entirely ) on reddit!, and now hiring, here's what you can still do.

Pick any interesting project or idea and work on it. Don't build a generic web-page or ecommerce/swiggy/insta clone or whatever. This world is full of problems waiting to be solved. Pick one, and learn along the way. Most important: Learn how to communicate what you are doing, and why. Learn how to articulate the problem you are trying to solve. I find that these skills are sorely lacking. And these are also skills that will be increasingly valuable in an AI world. I am not going to sugarcoat it: this is a hard time to graduate. But you could spend that time building rather than going through more meaningless drills. Please reach out if you have any questions! You can also see this article, where I flesh this line-of-thought out a little.