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Would you consider systems administration/related work? When I started out, it was mostly manual work, and I automated things as I went along. It's much more sophisticated, large and automated (run by software tools) than before.

In other words, could you support what you used?

In effect, doing larger scale things with less complex code?

My feeling is that companies are betting on AI at the expense of everything else at this time, but I imagine that results are going to be very unevenly distributed, since so many are new to the field, and like software engineering, it may be easy to get started, but very hard to do well, so there is a lot of uncertainty right now.

However, big systems seem to be getting bigger. I tell low-tech people to become electricians, because energy demand is skyrocketing.

Just some outside the box ideas, in case they help.

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I run the ML team at a larger unicorn. I fully agree with this. We are multi & hybrid cloud with global SD Wan and everything on CI/CD. There is still a ton of maintenance, patches, deployments, and updates that require us to manually intervene in our otherwise automated systems.

If OP were to learn sys admin skills, CI/CD, and Terraform, he would be a key candidate for any ML team globally. They’re all going in that direction. We work closely with Google and they coached us in that direction. Sys Admin skills will always be in demand.