Developers here and who are learning/finding programming niche have you considered games programming specifically graphics programming.
Recently I looked into it and stuff we can do is crazy, it is like a perfect combination of Art , programming and
Deepseek looks just like another AI startup that blowed up but OpenAI still looks like it will take back it's position in their next model.
Many AI startups blew up (not at the level of deepseek) ,but OpenAI always looked promising