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.

India doesn't have the risk appetite. The rest are just derivatives - Culture is to play safe - Risky behaviour is discouraged since childhood - People celebrate when risk-takers fail That is why - Indian VCs don't invest in risky stuff - Indian founders have severe imposter syndrome whenever they are doing something unique This is a chicken and egg problem that will be solved by someone starting an a16z-like kingmaker fund in India (no existing VC has the balls to do that) or a founder who has multibillion company (i can only see Aravind Perplexity for now, rest are just happy on sharktank) Change needs to start - Celebrating those who take risks (like Kunal Shah was derided for raising $ for Cred for years) - Respecting tech/market innovation rather than just 1000 Cr turnover - Hardest: create a pool of $1bn of risk-capital