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Anonymous01/18/26, 15:31No.16894198Hopefuel
The current state of science and technology is making me suicidal. I’m a mathematics BSc who was trying to pivot into CS and it seems like there’s literally no way for me to have a successful career. Ideas and problems I was working on have become outdated before I could make any real progress in only a year. And now retards are solving open problems in mathematics too. So, has anyone bothered to make a serious analysis of where all of this is leading to? I need to either confirm my fears and establish a plan of action or get some reassurance.
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Anon01/18/26, 15:36No.16894202
>seems like there’s literally no way for me to have a successful career
>career
Yeah, it's over for you.
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Anon01/18/26, 16:07No.16894220
>you couldn't make it in academia
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Anon01/18/26, 23:49No.16894424
>making me suicidalDon't. Quantum immortality means that you will just end up seriously injuring yourself. Ultimately there is no escape. You are doomed to an eternity of existence, 99.9999999999999999% of which will be torture. You are currently in the fleeting and blissful pre-torture period.
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Anon01/22/26, 22:46No.16896988
>serious analysis of where all of this is leading to?
Sure, pop over to >>>/sci/scg [//boards.4chan.org/sci/catalog#s=scg]
And stay comfy.
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Anon01/26/26, 04:26No.16899450
I dropped out to pivot into IT/IS/datacomm full-time my sophomore year of university. I haven't had a positive outlook on the state of S/T fields since 2017. now it looks like basically any direction you could pivot is being replaced by AI tooling because ML is basically overtaking anything that isn't manual labor. the thing keeping me from going back and finishing both of my bachelors' degrees besides changing majors is that the field is oversaturated, or that my school doesn't offer EE, aside from being over 200km away. you can always get a teaching certificate, teach college, and stock shelves or some shit overnight to pay what CS/math pays in the US. do you even need a certification to teach college? anyways, basically, even the research I had is all but obsoleted by the total dominance of AI over essentially anything, so it's like why even try to go back to finish at the graduate level? pretty much the only hope there is left in the entire field looks something along the lines of learning how to program quantum computers, or working in the manufacturing sector. my dad changed majors from accounting before the 2000s to industrial technology in about 2012 and basically does what I used to do making like 7 times what I did in C-suite years ago. a family friend changed majors from CS to ME and is probably way better off than he could've ever predicted basically doing the job of being an excel/VB codemonkey around the same time. there might still be a future in CE and nuclear, or you could still find a job in the future doing algorithmic trading for someone like jane street. basically, it mostly entirely depends on where you want to actually live for the rest of your life, not to mention just where you want to live for the rest of your career. do you really want to live in a metropolitan area or work a remote job? I would prefer to actually have a dedicated office somewhere that is not my residence like I used to back in the day that isn't inside a truck.
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Anon01/26/26, 04:47No.16899456
as for the future, in having watched this crept up and shook everything we know entirely out of scale from head to toe, I always forget about applied mathematics, and that there is an entire future in prompt engineering. I literally lived what you're experiencing before age 18, and really only got into both of those majors because of what I was good at in secondary school based on what could make the most amount of money in this absolute shithole of a country before things got as bad as they are now here in USA. the only difference between then and now is that automation used to take a whole lot more of my time to implement, and now there's things like Gas Town and k8s that would've taken me hiring another engineer I couldn't afford (nor find in this market) to achieve the same things. if you're looking for a panacea, really, the only way "out" seems to look like having an unreal insane amount of diligence, and that's an illusion; if you aren't using AI to game the stock market or literally winning the lottery, your chances of otherwise finding a successful career look identical to job hopping and grinding your skill at wasting time. if you can get over that, failing, and in the same vein working for peanuts, then you might have a chance at working on some interesting things like I used to. everyone's advice is it's not what you know, it's who you know, and that interning while having frat connections is literally your only way out of beating your head against the wall trying to find a decent day job even though I've watched this backfire for people before, because there is absolutely not (though it seems like there should exist) any guarantee for these things to exist inside a reasonable radius of where you are, are trying to move yourself, or might see yourself in several years down the road. I mean, shit, if you're just in it for one thing or the other, there's literally always >the next big thing memay
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Anon01/26/26, 05:11No.16899459
as for where this is all going in the future and what you find yourself doing, whether that looks like UBI, concentration camps, AI killing everybody, WW3, everyone killing themselves, or literally nothing, there's like one industry that will always exist, it's extraction industries. one solid piece of advice an IT professor gave me was just avoid specialization and to generalize instead. that really pushed me into majoring in mathematics, too, plus CS just to check a box on a job application. mind you, this was in the 2010s, and at the time I was looking at going into the sysadmin field (which no longer even existed by then) except actually did it, was good at it, failed anyways for matters outside of what I did, or literally couldn't go forward anymore after because of living inside of the future even back then. so, my piece of advice is look into branching out, that you might be able to find in what you think you want to do and in what you enjoy doing for a living room for not necessarily making a job out of what might have stemmed from a hobby, because becoming burned out basically is going to turn you into a really bland, unimaginative person (which it sounds like you're already on the road to) because there is not a cure for being fuckin' stupid. i.e. take a gap semester (and maybe changing majors entirely) or consider getting a second bachelor's degree, because doing at least one of those things creates a much-needed sense of hiatus, at least that it staves off burning yourself out into an absolutely unsalvageable scrapheap like I was and as so many others found themselves at the end of their ropes throughout the previous dozen years.
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Anon01/26/26, 07:00No.16899493
Learn to make LLMs from scratch.