Am I focusing on the wrong skills as a CS student in the AI era? (Need brutally honest advice) [D]

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A computer science student is questioning the utility of learning traditional backend engineering and DSA while AI continues to automate boilerplate coding. The community consensus highlights a pivot from 'writing code' to 'system design and logic validation' as the core survival skill for the next generation of engineers. It reflects a global anxiety among juniors about whether they are training for a job that will exist by graduation.