In this economy and with ai causing mass layoffs, what are the best roles and certifications to look out for?

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There's a quote attributed to IBM, "a computer can never be held accountable, therefore computers must never make management decisions". In that context I think most operations are going to run with the mindset that you need humans at the wheel for those management decisions. So you need infrastructure knowledge, you need to review and approve the code your agent writes, you need to be the failsafe that prevents your agent from deleting production in 9 seconds.

There is plenty of ground to cover in those areas.

I also think small orgs that are locked into their own aging enterprise apps will still need hands-on dev work to maintain those things that keep the business functioning, even if the work is less sexy.

Could just be me smoking the hopium, but I've also been told offshoring was going to render me obsolete, and that didn't happen either, so.

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A few things to note:

1) As is usually the case, AI isn’t making nearly the impact that the hype indicates.

2) Companies aren’t paying anything near the levels that AI actually costs. Once we lose the access to dirt-cheap tokens, everything will flip. The agents we replaced people with will jump 10X or more in price.

3) A senior Gartner rep recently pointed out to me that they are projecting that the industry will need to hire more than 40% of the folks RIF’d in the last 12 months - at a higher cost.

You still ask a valid question. Just saying - we are in a bubble that’s not going to last.

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