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Even if you pivot to AI, the technology advances have been so swift that even AI practitioners need to keep up to not fall behind. While certain fundamental skills such as statistics, linear algebra, and elementary machine learning algorithms (including neural networks) are important and I don’t believe will fall out of style anytime soon, the cutting edge is evolving at breakneck pace. It seems right now that large language models are the rage now. Just a few years ago there was a major emphasis on deep learning, and before then was “big data.”

My advice is to continue searching for jobs in various fields of computing; it’s a tough market right now and it may be hard to specialize. In the meanwhile, use your time unemployed to get up to speed with AI as well as to practice Leetcode. I believe you’ll find something eventually, but it is a tough market.