If you’re an Indian student currently in college or planning to join soon, I highly encourage reading this.

Quick note: Nothing here is absolute truth — it’s just what I think might happen based on past trends and current data. Anything can happen. A war, a disruption, a miracle — this is just one lens to look through.

TL;DR

Only 1–2% of engineers in India are actually employable.
CS is overcrowded. If you’re not in the top 10%, start rethinking.
AI and Web3 are the only spaces worth going deep into now.
Coding won’t be a skill soon — it’ll be just English + good prompting.
Electronics is quietly blowing up. Chips = the backbone of AI.

the past

Before we look ahead to the future, let’s rewind to where it all began — the moment our country gained its freedom.

1947 – india’s freedom

on August 15, 1947, india shook off British rule. in the chaos of partition—over 10 million displaced, nearly a million dead—the foundation of a new republic began under Jawaharlal Nehru, our first prime minister.

Nehru was obsessed with science & tech. he knew our future lay in technical education. so he pushed for technological institutes of higher learning—the IITs.

In May 1950, the first IIT kicked off at Hijli (the old detention camp), Kharagpur, then named “IIT” before its first convocation on August 18, 1951.

fun fact: IIT Kharagpur went from a prison to an institute of learning. source Nehru called it “a fine monument of India… symbolical of the changes …coming to India”.

funny how the monument he once talked about as a symbol of change has now become a business trap where Indian parents willingly fall, chasing prestige over purpose

civil‑boom – post‑1947 to 1990s

as India rebuilt, infrastructure was everywhere—dams, railways, roads, telegraphs—from the 1830s onward, but picked up serious pace post‑independence, especially in the 1960s . civil engineers were the unsung heroes—building irrigation, highways, reservoirs, growth cities. it became the second‑largest job creator—one study even estimates civil engineering underpins ~70 % of our economy, directly or indirectly. source

ps: i couldn’t find number of civil engineers but these dams say a lot about their requirement now

💻 internet‑boom – 1986 to 202.

then came the real plot twist: the internet.

Companies like Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Intel started entering and expanding in India, setting up offices, R&D centers, and outsourcing operations — turning the country into a global tech backend and laying the groundwork for the IT boom that followed.

1986: ERNET connected IITs and research centers — basically, India’s nerds got Wi-Fi before the rest of us were born.
1995: public internet launched on August 15 (yep, independence day again), by VSNL. price? ₹5,000+ per year for 250 hours — it was hella expensive to use internet at that time.

then came the dot-com bubble burst The dot-com bubble was a time in the late 1990s when people put lots of money into internet companies, even if they weren’t making profits. Everyone thought they’d get rich. But in 2000, most of these companies failed, and the market crashed. It was a big loss — but it helped shape the internet we use today.

computer science engineering (CSE).

from 2005 onwards, CSE started eating every other branch alive — mechanical? electrical? civil? RIP.

CSE became the “safe” option. not because everyone loved it — but because everyone else was doing it for money.

and by the time 2015 hit, every Indian parent’s brain had one virus: _“beta, coding seekh le” (”kid learn to code”)

2016: Jio dropped data prices like a bomb. ₹300/month → unlimited net. suddenly, internet prices were so cheap, even lower segment of the population in India could now have easy access of internet
by 2024:
- 800M+ internet users
- 500M+ social media accounts
- avg data consumption per user = 24GB/month, expected to hit 28GB+
- and AI is now in every college project (whether needed or not 😭)

and with internet came not just coding, but a wave:

freelancing, startups, YouTubers, crypto bros, UI/UX, AI/ML, product design, remote jobs — everything exploded.

everything fine right, so much money, everyone should do CS——

But..

source: Pajama Profits by Varun Mayya

if you know what supply and demand is, the above graph is something similar but more in more indeep

I like to call this graph as hard truth graph

for example let’s talk about Photography

Early Adoption (film era): Expensive gear, rare skill.
Acceptance (digital camera boom): Pros with DSLRs became wedding/brand shooters.
Peak Popularity (2010s): Instagram made everyone a “photographer”. Courses, gear sales skyrocketed.
Commoditisation (late 2010s): Stock photo platforms, phone cameras rival DSLRs.
Automation (now): AI editing, enhancement, even AI-generated “photos” — no camera needed.

litreally in a way field this happens wanna know more? let’s talk about Web Development

Early Adoption (1990s–early 2000s): Only geeks built websites. HTML/CSS was elite.
Acceptance (2005–2015): Everyone from companies to colleges wanted a site. Demand surged.
Peak Popularity (2016–2021): React, Next.js, Webflow — bootcamps exploded, job market flooded.
Commoditisation (2022–now): Templates, no-code tools, AI site builders. Entry-level jobs = struggle.
Automation (soon): AI-generated full-stack apps, one-click CMS. Humans needed more for logic/design than code.

literally everything in some way or another it will occur in almost any field

so now what about CSE?

Early Adoption (1980s–1990s): Only top-tier nerds and researchers coded. C, Assembly, Fortran ruled. Everyone else barely knew what it was.
Acceptance (2000–2010): IT services boom — Infosys, Wipro, TCS went global. “Software engineer” became every parent’s dream.
Peak Popularity (2011–2020): Coding = gold. Every engineering student chose CSE. Coding bootcamps, Leetcode, internships, package dreams — it was the rat race.
Commoditisation (2021–now): Too many coders, too little originality. Entry-level jobs flooded. Degrees ≠ jobs. AI, tools, and bootcamp grads closed the gap.
Automation (soon): Copilot writes code, GPT explains it, AI builds apps. CSE folks now shift to solving bigger problems — AI, product, UX, systems — not just “for loop lagao”.

unfortunately this is the problem, the supply is increasing but demand is decreasing

India makes 15 lakh engineers every year. Out of those, around 9 lakh are actually job-hunting — but only ~1.5 lakh get a proper job. That’s a ratio of 1:6. Even in 2025, 83% students didn’t get a single offer — job or internship. Bro it’s not even funny anymore, there’s just too many engineers and not enough demand.

source: Stastica

still ppl getting into CSE thinking they will get a job easily

now I am not demotivating even now ppl still do civil engineering and some make more money than someone in CSE, it’s all about are you doing CSE because it makes you do fun stuff or it’s just because of money factor

saying these lines I got these steve jobs quote which kinda fit

Future

let’s see what I think will be the future

CS in the future won’t just need 10 people—it’ll need 1. AI agents will handle the rest. Coding becomes less of a skill and more like a tool—it’ll be plain English commands. The real game will be in crafting the perfect prompt.

let’s divide the future into diffrent parts

1. For people who genuinely love CS (like me)

You won’t just code—you’ll build. There’s a world of difference:

Developers write code.
Builders use code (and AI) to turn ideas into money. Some Example for Builders job
- Indie Hacker: Making small tools solo which ppl pays, usually solves one problem
- entrepreneur: uk what i mean it’s just hard af
- aquirer: i made that name myself lol, but someone who make apps or tools to just sell it to others
- other money making methods, I can write another note on this lol

I don’t see coding as a skill anymore — it’s a powerful tool. A tool to build anything you imagine. And with LLMs and AI agents popping up every week, you can now build things solo, and insanely fast.

2. wbu CSE Jobs??

If you really think from a job point of view, the basic idea of a company is simple — they want to get maximum value out of you. So the more depth you have in a space, the more useful (and hireable) you become

If I had to bet, I’d go all in on AI. I’d be reading whitepapers, learning how models work under the hood, playing with agents, and basically trying to invoke the tech — not just use it, but bend it. Because once you understand the tech deeply, you can build smarter, faster, and more unique stuff than 99% of people. But if AI feels too meh or too uncertain for someone, then Web3 is another solid pick. Especially Solana + Rust, where the work is genuinely challenging and very money-related. Unlike web/app dev, which AI is learning to do in days, Web3 still needs your thinking. It’s hard to fake. So yeah, either go deep in AI, or smart in Web3. That’s how you stand out in a world where “just knowing” tech won’t cut it anymore.

so shrit wbu creative space?

honestly in a weird position right now.

See, not everyone can generate “good” AI images, or design great UX/UI. That’s because creativity isn’t just about typing prompts. If you don’t know what style you want, which artist inspires it, what emotion you’re trying to create — then honestly, your image’s gonna look like a broken Pixar frame rendered by a toaster. Same with UI — if you don’t understand the logic, flow, and psychology behind design, AI-generated stuff just ends up looking like generic template soup.

So yeah, creative space is uncertain. It can be replaced. But it also might never be fully replaced. Because knowing what to generate is becoming more important than how to generate it. And that “what” still takes taste, culture, research, and experience — stuff AI hasn’t caught up with (yet).

And speaking of creative… let’s be real — content is fully gone 💀. Like, 99.9% of content on the internet right now is just AI-generated filler fluff. DW everything I write in blogs and newsletter is free from ai (or is it 😈)

3. Electronics also looks 🔥

AI doesn’t run on dreams — it runs on chips. And with AI tools like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, etc. scaling like crazy, chip demand is exploding. So yeah, if you’re someone who’s more into hardware, circuits, or even just wants to get in early before this thing gets crowded — electronics might be that goldmine nobody’s talking about loud enough yet.

🔌 Why Electronics Is About to Blow Up (For Real):

AI Needs Chips. Period. The global AI chip market is set to grow from $31.6B in 2025** to **$ 846.8B by 2035 — that’s not hype, that’s a 34.8% growth rate 🔥
India’s Chip Game Is Warming Up From $22B in 2019**, India’s semiconductor consumption is projected to hit **$ 110B by 2030
Fab Factories Are Coming Tata Group is building a huge semiconductor fab in Gujarat (50k wafers/month by 2026) and an assembly plant in Assam = 27,000 jobs incoming

Also India is heavily investing in electronics sector
Global Chip Makers Are Exploding TSMC’s May 2025 revenue went up 40% YoY, all thanks to AI chip demand. Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom? All doubling down.

Should I be Afraid?

Okay, no delusional talk — if you’re in CS right now and not in the top 5–10% of your peeps (which btw isn’t that hard if you grind smart), here’s the brutal fact: only about 10% of the 1.5 million engineering grads in India each year actually land jobs . That’s roughly 1–2% who are truly employable by industry standards . So yeah, if you’re not in that league, you really gotta rethink what you’re doing next — skills, depth, real-world value… it all matters. You can wait, hope, or just watch it all unfold. But trust me, it’s coming.

The End

Alright, so yeah — this is just what I think might happen. It’s based on trends, data, and how things have moved till now. But at the end of the day, anything can happen. The future is wild — and no graph or prediction can ever fully capture it. So take this as a perspective, not a prophecy.

“We look at the past to guess the future — but the future rarely asks for permission.”

See you there. 🚀