[Quothling]

I've worked in CS for two decades and I'm an external examiner for CS students and if it's any consolation I think frontend work will be some of the last programming jobs to be replaced by AI. I'm not sure the LLM's will really even get there in general. Sure you can get them to pass the CS examns better than most students, but you can't make them code anything useful once you add the whole "business" part into the equation. Well, that's a truth with modifications because they'll continue getting better at automating repetitive and boring tasks. With the way they work it'll be really hard to get them to actually solve real business related issues because they're not actually using any sort of logic or "thinking", they're generating their responces on probability based on token weights. Which is great for things that have been solved a billion times... like sorting a binary search tree or whatever, but terrible when it comes to doing anything with some silly tax law that doesn't even make sense to humans.

Anyway... Even without AI we all live in a world where the economy can turn to shit over night and it's really not useful to worry about it. I know that's much easier said than done, but you're not in control of whether or not AI will replace you, and worrying about something that may never happen is really unhealthy. It's not really healthy to regret your past, you've worked with javascript and never really done anything to branch out? So what? You're 38, you can change that. I know people who switched fields of work in their 50ies, it's all about just going for it. Of course you sort of need to know what you want to go for, and it sounds a little like you might not.

Then there is the working remote in a small town part. Do you get out and talk to other people? If you don't then maybe pick up a new hobby, or go to some of the small town events and participate in things with other people.

I would probably start by talking to your doctor about what sounds like a depression.

[yousuke86]

Yeah, I will talk to a doctor soon. I think you are right, it does sound like a depression.