[sermakarevich]

Main question is: what do you like? Do you like research, maybe automation, solving puzzles, constant learning requirement, fast changing domain? Check the attributes of software engineering and ask yourself if this is what you deeply love and can spend on it 10-14 hours a day.

I joined SE/DS/AI because I loved automation and research. And I have plenty of it on a daily basis no matter on what stage of its development compilers/llms are.

The rest are details and might be subjective. You don't need to understand LLM architecture to be able to use it - however this might be an interesting puzzle to solve. Many SE engineers don't write code and they did not write code even before LLM popped up - but they do research and solve design puzzles instead.

Good luck.