Do not attempt to compete with AI. Rather seek to thoroughly understand fundamentals & lower levels in an area you're interested in. The more layers of abstract

Do not attempt to compete with AI. Rather seek to thoroughly understand fundamentals & lower levels in an area you're interested in. The more layers of abstraction we keep adding (e.g. in the compute space - AI running on containers, running on virtualization in infra, consuming data on top of various hosting, databases, storage and networking, crossing data centers globally), the larger the blast radius of infrastructure failures will be, and the more demand on the skills required to comprehend, fix, re-architect and rebuild such. I also think that true SRE skills will further expand, way beyond for what Google designed such roles. Security in all areas will also continue growing in human skills demand. Creativity in this space is crucial.