I don't completely hate AI, and leverage it to make things better but I don't like to use it for EVERYTHING.
At my current job we have outsourced our thinking, our design, our documentation, our sanity to it and I just can't do it anymore.
I'm considering getting out of tech entirely at this point I've been in it for almost two decades and I've reached my tipping point dealing with the way we're using it but fear basically every company hiring software engineers is doing the same thing (or worse.)
I'm ready to just be poorer at this point.
Having worked in regulated and very sensitive industries (banking and semiconductor), I can tell you adoption is slower but AI is still everywhere. Because those industries have many constraints, they have to think hard how to adopt it. So, you will encounter AI initiatives everywhere.
If you want to be part of those adoption initiatives but just want more thoughtful and slower adoption, such industries might be a good fit. If you want to avoid AI initiatives in general, I am not sure whether software engineering is the right function.
And where do we go from here? Law? Medicine? The trades?! Every path seems longer and/or more precarious, but I feel like I've had the same uncertainty as my friends who were writers and artists despite losing many a night (and many a partner) because I worked longer hours but ended up in the same precarious place as my peers.