I feel completely lost with no direction in sight. (Current market situation)

I’m pretty stressed about my career and honestly don’t know what direction to take.

I’m currently working as a frontend developer with React Native, React and Angular from the last 1.5 years. The biggest issue is that I’ve relied very heavily on AI for my work. I can get tasks done, often much faster than I could manually, but I’ve realized that I don’t properly understand a lot of the implementation details, tradeoffs, complexity, or even the logic behind some things. I’ve basically outsourced a lot of my problem-solving to AI, and now I feel like my actual engineering ability is much weaker than it should be.

At this situation its unrealistic to not use Ai.

I have a BsCS degree, but I was mostly focused on passing courses rather than actually becoming a tech geek or something. So I’m considering whether I should go back and rebuild my JS/TS + CS fundamentals, become much stronger at frontend, learn backend/full-stack, or start moving toward AI engineering.

The problem is I also need to keep earning while doing this. I don’t have the luxury of spending a year starting from zero I have my family relied on me as well. I’ve also been struggling with consistency and focus lately, and when I try solving something without AI, sometimes I genuinely go blank because I’m so used to asking it for the approach.

For those who have been in the industry for a while: what would you actually prioritize in my position over the next 6–12 months?

I’m not looking for generic “learn DSA and build projects” advice. I’d genuinely like to know what skills you think are worth developing deeply now and what I should stop worrying about.

Although I can spare a few hours daily and can apply specific approach for learning while working at job. But I also dont like worrying about the designs and UI myself and as you all know ai is pretty much doing all of it.

I feel the entire CS career for avg developers is just wiped off in no time.