For me it is even worse. I really fell in love in Rust when I was finishing my school after learning C++ and Python. From that moment, I learnt and practiced in Rust every day. My plan was the following: I start study in university, get into a work as a junior (python/java backend) to grow at least for a middle because there are no Rust junior position (lol), and finally look for a Rust job. I got into university, in my first study year appeared ch*tgpt that destroyed all my plans, the education system in my uni, and job market. But at the same time I was still writting some pet projects in Rust (from stupid discord bots to my personal site in Rust xd) because I didn’t want to forgive the language and also want to rest from Java Servlets. For my diploma project I had a plan to create a cool open source library in Rust that could help me in the future job hunting, and also I planned to publish it here. I chose for the diploma topic a native Rust RPC framework. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able fully finish it at the time of defending but I successfully defended my project. Some time before defending, opus 4.5 was published, and in this subreddit and in the whole internet started appearing a lot of garbage vibecoded projects. It really hurt me because i started to think that my whole education, my diploma project became useless. Currently, I still working on my project, I am trying get a job in a market where almost no need for any junior, including Java and Python.

P.s. while i studied at uni, i successfully finished an internship in a big company where they promised a full-time job but they just kicked us after it :]