Would you consider switching to an easier / more horsepower-dependent rather than effort-dependent major instead of dropping out? You are clearly bright and I suspect that with some good course selection you could get a b+/a- average in mathematics or economics while committing only 15 or so hours a week, which would free up a fair bit of bandwidth compared to CS or engineering. If you think GT’s CS education is out-of-date for the AI era, an easier degree (poli sci?) may even be fundamentally more useful for your ambitions.
You are very different from me (and my college experience was some time ago, and at a liberal arts school) and I suspect you will do fine no matter what you choose. But if AI transformation timelines are longer than you currently suspect: having a respectable degree, being able to enter the standard recruiting pipelines as a junior / senior, and so on, are a pretty good insurance policy. Plus—for me at least—college was super fun, and I often wish I could go back; I’ve sometimes been tempted to do an MBA solely so I can get a little way back to that experience...
Now while agency / drive / ambition levels are harder to judge from a text sample than intelligence, you seem to be pretty aggressive. If you truly think you are truly exceptionally agentic − 4 or more standard deviations above average, well into the 99.99th percentile—then, probably you should just go full Thiel and try to make something of yourself in the real world.
I am absolutely biased by being: 1) less agentic / aggressive than you, 2) a big college enjoyer, 3) not a particularly strong believer in short timelines for AI transformation.
Would you consider switching to an easier / more horsepower-dependent rather than effort-dependent major instead of dropping out? You are clearly bright and I suspect that with some good course selection you could get a b+/a- average in mathematics or economics while committing only 15 or so hours a week, which would free up a fair bit of bandwidth compared to CS or engineering. If you think GT’s CS education is out-of-date for the AI era, an easier degree (poli sci?) may even be fundamentally more useful for your ambitions.
You are very different from me (and my college experience was some time ago, and at a liberal arts school) and I suspect you will do fine no matter what you choose. But if AI transformation timelines are longer than you currently suspect: having a respectable degree, being able to enter the standard recruiting pipelines as a junior / senior, and so on, are a pretty good insurance policy. Plus—for me at least—college was super fun, and I often wish I could go back; I’ve sometimes been tempted to do an MBA solely so I can get a little way back to that experience...
Now while agency / drive / ambition levels are harder to judge from a text sample than intelligence, you seem to be pretty aggressive. If you truly think you are truly exceptionally agentic − 4 or more standard deviations above average, well into the 99.99th percentile—then, probably you should just go full Thiel and try to make something of yourself in the real world.
I am absolutely biased by being: 1) less agentic / aggressive than you, 2) a big college enjoyer, 3) not a particularly strong believer in short timelines for AI transformation.