Anything that fosters complexity will create jobs.

Jobs won't dissolve into the ether. If the human civilization system grows bigger and complex, it necessitates more people.

If humans were a high energy configuration in the evolution of intelligent systems, we'd never come into being. That Earth's ecosystem has begotten us indicates we're some low energy configuration for packing more information density into the energy flows from the Sun through Earth's biosphere.

Unless we create replicating machines, any machine system we build will only grow more complex by enabling more humans to work on it. We'd be in trouble if we somehow created autonomous self replicating and evolving machinery but chatbots built on natural language machine learning ain't it.

I feel my job as an engineer is pretty safe, lots of domain knowledge required. Very confident no business type anywhere in the chain above me would be able to do the work I do in a month in even a year with the help of AI. Do we need 3 engineers now instead of 5 for the same output? Sure, can we replace a team of 5 junior, senior, staff with 1 staff - no unless all you do is maintenance. Business types are reaching.

Look for things that are both hard to verify and important to verify.

Middle-management paper-pushing is hard to verify but nobody was verifying it exactly anyway. Few people really care if your proposal to do Thing A vs Thing B is 100% correct and fewer have the ability to tell.

A lot of software is easy/fast to verify, despite being important to verify.

But there's a lot of niches out there even in software and software-adjacent things where verification is slow, costly, and/or hard. Where an agent can't write mediocre code but speedrun its way through six iterations of unit tests, code fixes, test fixes, code fixes, etc.

And because their niches, there's room to carve stuff out. If you're OpenAI there's diminishing returns on specifically targeting the ability to one-shot every specific niche in the world.

Nobody's is

Every time new technology / industrial scaling radically deflates the cost of something it wipes out the old/expensive ways while creating massive demand for the supporting/complimentary value.

E.g. cheap Chinese solar panels wiped out German solar panel industry but created massive demand for solar panel installation and supporting services and infrastructure.

It's not a good position to be competing with AI directly... But what can you do that compliments it? What new skills could you learn?

Adapt and prosper.

Be like water.

Edit: to those down voting me, I can't help but assume your stance is the opposite of what I'm saying, something like "be stubborn scream into the void and get wiped out". If you would rather smash your head against something outside of your control instead of focusing on what is within your control, and doing what you can to prosper, then you are sabotaging yourself. If you feel that is justified to such an extent that you want to surpress a suggestion to someone else to get work and grow, I can't help but feel you want people to suffer.