Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?

I could be wrong with what I say here. It's just the situation made me feel so.

Looks like AI learnt almost everything there is in the internet and textbooks today. I lost hope of learning anything new out there to make a reasonable difference and impact. Choose any topic AI knows. Its interpretation is far better than what I can come up with by myself. I feel robbed of my intellectual freedom to express and be accepted by others as others depend on AI for everything.

I recently started studying physics fundamentals to find solace. These fundamentals cannot be found through AI. No LLM can precisely measure and compare, but instead only predict. But this is mostly an intellectual exercise. I can't do a living from it.

I am a software engineer with average skills. I get paid reasonably okay as it helps me survive. Nothing more than that. But AI can make my world topple any time soon.

What should I look into as alternatives , even if it's less lucrative software compensation, so that I find AI can't over power me?

There is no place to hide from AI, whenever big giants discover the untouched area they will start working on it, so either join startup and get job security for at least 2-3 years depending on your dependency over a project or be an entrepreneur yourself. I would recommend instead of escaping try embracing and do some extra work apart from you regular chores and present that also to the management i have built this or that using AI. We cannot party on weekends anymore it is a technological shift we must keep the momentum for at least 2 years from now to be in the game otherwise the layoffs are on their way. The more you fear, the more you lose. The more you practice, the more you gain

In my humble human opinion everything digital has been or shortly will be conquered by AI.

You can either embrace it, learn to how to use and deploy AI or try to find a way out into the real world, until robotics will inevitably catch you in several years, for some professions with manual aspect you could have maybe decades of time.

Kernel Hacking. Human judgement here is still required and irreplaceable. For fast employment - Non Destructive Testing.

Keep studying physics, though. Go up to modern Solid State physics for a possibility of entering industries that revolve around chip production.