I don't know.. I play some Cello and tennis myself. AI won't help with that. I can only encourage them to learn something that makes them happy and try to encourage good grades in general so they at least have some shot at whatever bullshit jobs are available to them. Happiness never came from the job anyway.
Alright I caught myself mulling this over: I actually think learning to "grind" is key. I myself learned this very late, I was very averse to putting energy into something - still am - and only by reversing that and learning to "just do it" did I experience some semblence of success. Literally everything that's worth anything to me now has come through grind and not one-off genius moves. So I guess "endurance" and learn to push through. Very, very few people have follow-through. That alone is a skill that'll differentiate you. Someone else here mentioned knife skills and I don't think that's a bad idea at all..
Thing is, in my experience, work has gotten 10x more fun. Wrangling syntax and handling hundreds of little things that have no intrinsic meaning, just pure unadulterated accidental complexity, suck the joy out of my life. I experience no flow when I'm reading about how library X decided to interface with component Y in environment Z. It's all the same bloody thing over and over and over again. Connect this persistence to that service. Connect this service to that API. Log, sanitize input, log, write to persistence, read out of persistence, log, format into a response shape, log, audit, goddamn repeat, repeat, repeat. FFS.
Now I can just ideate, manage intent, control the architecture and let the bots handle the state management, all the endless and bullshit layout issues, writing SQL for the millionth time, the endless little things that suck time and energy out of my soul. I can have applications running in a day that took me a week and they look better too. It comes at a price indeed.. perhaps I am more suited to this age than the good coders of yore.
Alright I caught myself mulling this over: I actually think learning to "grind" is key. I myself learned this very late, I was very averse to putting energy into something - still am - and only by reversing that and learning to "just do it" did I experience some semblence of success. Literally everything that's worth anything to me now has come through grind and not one-off genius moves. So I guess "endurance" and learn to push through. Very, very few people have follow-through. That alone is a skill that'll differentiate you. Someone else here mentioned knife skills and I don't think that's a bad idea at all..