Alternatively if you are a person in this field and would have to do things again from start then what/how would you do things differently given that its 2023?
I personally think there will be legacy code to maintain and smaller businesses that need good old-fashioned programming.
Don't take Hacker News comments as your sole window on the world -- this tends to be a subset of the tech sector with its own bias towards the more trendy new tech. Some more general advice: go to Meetups. You learn a lot about new tech, but it's also a good way to network. And don't be afraid to change jobs -- that's how you increase your salary. (Along the same lines, it's helpful to "always be looking.")
The advice I got when starting out was to learn one language really well -- all the features and major libraries -- and then dabble in some other languages. Harvard's free online course CS50 was a great way to get exposed to a lot of languages and concepts quickly.
A real career-booster: get a junior entry-level position doing actual programming. Besides beefing up your resume, it gives you truly useful real-world experience. To that end, create a GitHub account early on, and then upload code that you're proud of there so potential employers can eventually see it. If you can't get paid work, volunteer -- find an open source project, review its code, find one where you can dive in. (If you don't feel comfortable writing code, you can write documentation.)