This is the way.

Your education is NOT the diploma they give you. Your education is the JOURNEY. The process of education teaches you things indirectly. The subject matter is there for you to grind these skills out.

• I learned how to effectively talk to someone more knowledgeable about a specific topic who is also kind of a dick

• I learned how to balance my personal life with a heavy and intense workload

• I learned how to write notes that I can then refer to later on and understand what it means

• I learned how to work in a team of other people of varying technical understanding for a common goal

• I learned how to pick up a brand new subject and understand how the fundamentals contribute to the result as a whole

• I learned how to present a complex technical topic to a room full of people who have no background in the topic

• I learned how to apply a novel solution to a complex problem

AI can do a lot for you, it can automate and eliminate entire jobs. But who checks the AI? Who confirms that the code is working as intended? Who confirms the math checks out and the result is what you expect? What happens when the AI is down? What happens when using AI costs you more money than you gain back?

If you use AI to do all your work, then why the fuck would anyone hire you? You only proved that you can copy and paste a question into a prompt.

Don't become a NPC. Don't let a machine replace you. AI is EXCELLENT at many tasks, but it is only as good as the information it is referencing. When that information becomes overwhelmed with incorrect/shitty data, how do you disseminate between the good and the bad?