Keeping up with AI - the only way to survive?

Im going to be honest here - I had a little breakdown a while ago after I happily and very excitedly watched a friend explain his job to me. He is a AI only designer for a large agency.

After the call I couldnt believe what I had seen... it was so far beyond my experiences with Midjourney and Chatgpt, then after about 24/48 hours my brain started going nuts and the reality set in with a basic message: your job has NO future.

So the choices were (once my 48 hour freakout was done):
1. get with it (and learn and see where it takes you)
2. be the person that builds it
3. fall over and die (accepting my fate)
4. look for a job AI cant replace

So I made my choice, I would do a combination of 1,2 and 4 and thus this morning at 6am, my alarm went off, made a coffee and started spending an hour learning Javascript and soon JSON to facilitate parts of 1 and 2.
I self hosted N8N and Deepseek as well ready for learning and researched a few options for #4.

So wish me luck, ive tried coding before and never had any interest but hopefully this time it will be different as I have moved to a more process driven methodology in my life over the past decade.

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