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“It’s a modern gold rush", “If you wait until after you graduate,all the good ideas are going to be already taken.” and the last line of this article, “Would you rather tell your friends that your kid makes millions of dollars a month or has a college degree?”

I am just unsure how much of this frenzy is made out of essentially FOMO.

I can understand why someone my age might feel like all the ideas are within the AI space (or someone in general not even linked to my age) but, their comments just feel so hollow.

I don't believe that all ideas are within AI. I feel like personally what I do is prototype with ideas and wish to go to college so that I can really give my best in learning coding or just be the way I am right now really

I also sense a lot of the products might be really insecure the way they are written.

Another part but I also am not sure how I feel about these peers who are rushing into gold-rush and then being bound by these AI investors into these housing etc.

I live in my parent's house right now and use free AI to prototype. I am not sure but maybe its my line of thinking, but I would really love to not use VC funding unless the advantages of my idea[0] being with VC outweigh the downsides.

I also feel like if I want to work on something like my idea, I wish to be passionate, because if I am not passionate, then who else would be passionate for my ideas. I just don't feel the same amount of conviction from these peers.

I feel like passion is being sucked out of people and it isn't really all that good.

I don't know, I would like to try to do a bunch of ideas before I stick to an idea or an idea sticks to me. Having corporate interest be within this phase feels genuinely offsetting to me.

I might not be able to make money right now but I have decades of my life to make it. I'd much rather try to figure out who I am and what I like (this process is still very much ongoing)

But I get the lure of money, a lot of the world/people are just benchmarked with all of this in a more comparison oriented world. I am not sure about that as I sometimes wonder comparing myself with others with my marks or with my money, but being honest, I just want to make "enough" (that my parents are happy) and I just want to do some work which I can be proud of as a human. This lens of comparisons is a greater issue as well in my opinion.

Personally, the idea which has sticked with me right now is that I want to do something within the space of helping small to medium sized enterprises to better host within servers like Hetzner/OVH/others with open source products rather than using any subscription based product and making a living off from helping people migrate to open source and managing its security.

(Edit: also wanted to say thank you to anyone who has read this till the end, and also that, if someone who is reading this might have good relations with any college, I would really prefer if they can arrange an interview for me or anything where I can just talk to an individual who can hear me or give me a few markers within some good international colleges to apply to, I would really appreciate ,please feel free to mail me on this or just say hi to me on mail! I would appreciate both.)

(Thanks and have a nice day!)