feeling doomed is natural, unfortunately

Doomerism feels inescapable was the first post i read this morning. It's so true. I used to call myself a pessimist before college. Then in college, i felt a bit better, and be came an optimist. Being surrounded by diverse, smart humans gives you a glimpse of hope. Then while in college. Generative AI appeared, and things changed. Senior year, my last course was computational linguistics. I don't know how to code but I tried. The professor encouraged the use of AI. And I tried it, but it couldn't teach me well because it doesn't know my skill level. This was early ChatGPT. I had homework once a month, So instead of AI, I would have lengthy phone calls with an online friend, E, who was a CS and Computer Engineering double major. He would walk me through this stuff easily and I learned the basic syntax of Python. Taught me better than the professor and AI combined. After graduation, the job market that was handed to me was awful. But when you speak up on these grievances, you get older…