I can tell with an almost 100% certainty that there exists a CS engineering student who decided a year ago that software engineers were going to be replaced by AI and started looking for an alternative roadmap to have the highest chances of getting a job as opposed to your generic leetcode grind. And chances are, one year later, this person is still looking for that shortcut while everyone else who put in the work doing “generic stuff” is perhaps doing much better career-wise.