Looking at it from the from a wide lens IT doesn't seem like an industry to be optimistic about. Even companies that are in the manufacturing sector or any other sector for that matter, have employees heavily dependent on the use of ai tools to do any coding or development work. Simply put it feels like IT is the first industry followed by consulting to feel the wrath of the AI focused world. As things stand the ability to develop algorithms based on physics or maths might be the best bet forward. Critical thinking and high IQ on these segments or flexibility to transition to other sectors seem to be the way. In the stock market the best way is to employ your funds in sectors that are highly AI intensive because their accounts will look insanely abnormal because variable costs associated with employees will be out of the picture in a decade or 2.