Is Generative AI Now Essential for Tech Careers?

Generative AI is becoming common across software development, research, data analysis, content creation and customer support. I want to understand how much it is changing career opportunities for people in tech. Is it worth learning alongside programming, data analysis or cloud computing? For beginners, which skills should come first: AI tools, prompt writing, LLM fundamentals, APIs, retrieval-augmented generation or AI agents? I would like to hear from people already using these tools at work or in personal projects. Which Generative AI skills have been genuinely useful, and which ones are mostly hype?

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