My buddy recently had asked me whether he should pivot into software dev. I told him: if you have a problem to solve through programming, learn to code and do it; if you don’t, don’t. Programmers that will survive LLM revolution naturally find problems to solve. If you aren’t such a person it might not be a direction for you.
More great ideas will flow out of that activity.
As for missed the boat, how do you mean? We remain in early days!
Finally, try to avoid making your own reality. You write as if you know the future, and none of us do!
And even when we are right, how we respond to that future really matters!
You could sulk in gloom
, or!
You could be building things and or showing them off.
It is that showing off that nets good new opportunities.