It will definitely be necessary ALWAYS. The question will be if what you studied was as up to date as you need or if it's been changed up. We are nowhere close to AI. At best there's a new google that's better than before in chatgpt. And who is going to make the next ones that work better? Not that program!

But that field is pretty flooded as well because it's one of the cheapest - you can do it on a rather cheap computer watching youtube vids honestly! (Though MIT absolutely has versions of it too)

Things like Mechanical Electrical or Chemical engineering are pretty good general areas.

The real problem is that EVERYTHING is becoming competitive - and the things that aren't are really tiny, so tiny people would not have heard the name of it.

The most important thing is to not fall for grand statements by companies that pretend they are schools that care about you. They are there to make money off you. So you have to take a wild swing and hope you get something that can get you to other places and that those places will be where the world wants to be five or ten years from now!

And the disheartening thing for many, when people look up to people like Musk? He and his followers think he's a visionary, but many like that are lucky. There are hundreds or thousands like Musk at each stage - they just had a different vision that went a different way than the world did. So don't beat yourself up if you get it wrong!

As a funny example, I decided not to go into Aerospace engineering in the early 2000s because you had to be an old person to get a good job and most of the stuff short of space had already been figured out. Lol, I was pretty wrong on that! I sure missed everything about drones going on!

So try to find some intersection of what interests you and what you are good at along with what might support you. The one thing you have picked up that's also important is to watch out for something that is getting a flood of people into - or maybe doesn't even require that expensive degree for all the people paying for it! Software engineers are one that are a bit flooded because big companies are abusing visa programs to bring in cheaper foreign people to do the work. They also have schools taking advantage of a lie that they shouldn't get away with - Some very rare kids can get a Google $200k salary out of school, but most of the kids in software are going to get closer to $60k.

Anyway, good luck, it's not easy!

Sheesh, ramp your bot programming up quite a bit before testing this crap.

No, just no you aren't