The same thing that may threaten jobs is also the thing I'm using to build new things. I'm trying to focus on opportunities that are still under AI's attention.

Tech was always evolving, from on prem and in house infra, then virtualization, then cloud, then containers, then distributed systems at scale, then managed and serverless infra. Change was already constant, just slower and easier to adapt to. AI feels different because it's moving faster than people and companies can adapt, and the productivity gains are still unstructured.

I think the only way to cope is to focus on what leverage it gives you (I try to see all these AI things coming out, with a curious mindset and immediately try to think what and where I can use this), not only what it may take away.

But yes hitting the low is also a part of it. I feel useless sometimes but then I remember 'I get to tell AI what needs to done'

I don't have any solid advice here but try to build something using AI and ship it, even if no one uses it, you'll get to learn a lot. I'm still learning.