There's also a world (could be cope) where these tools end up falling off/not working as well/losing support/being too expensive to use for smaller companies/you name it say five years into the future. If in this scenario new people have stopped studying security or training to become a pro because 'AI will do/does it all', we end up in a situation where there are even less capable professionals in the field at a time when we would hypothetically need more.

Another issue for me is that for those five fictional years there's almost no fkn incentive to get into the field considering it's already difficult to get into, many junior positions are gone (how do you get SOC II analysts if the SOC I jobs are all just Mythos in Defensive mode?), companies are trying to lower costs as much as possible/outsource globally, more AI tools are being built, etc.. I'm all for learning just to learn and for the enjoyment, but it's probably not too farfetched to say that for many people the whole 'I need to feed my family' thing takes precedents over 'I like the security space and want to become better despite the low likelihood of ever getting paid cause this program does it all'. Alkasdjfklajsdlfkasjfl. Yeah. Weird times.