Let's assume that everything you say is true. Then your hope and your identity need to be in something other than your work and your paycheck.

For me, personally, I'm a Christian. My hope and my identity are in Jesus Christ. AI may take over programming, and paychecks may drop. But my identity is not in what I do or how much I make. Those things ultimately aren't going to be what makes my life work.

You need that, from somewhere - somewhere other than your work and your paycheck.

But I don't actually think that everything you say is true. Companies will not tolerate careful work? No, some companies will not tolerate careful work. You don't really want to work at those companies - not now, and you didn't before, because they didn't care about careful work then either. You especially don't want to work at those companies now, because the lack of care is going to slap them hard in the fairly near future.

The good news is that, under current circumstances, it has become easier to tell which kind of company is which.

I mean, look, the situation is not great. It really isn't. But you are fixing your attention only on the negative, and it's giving you a distorted picture of reality. You are seeing some things that are true, but you are taking them to be the whole truth, and they aren't.