The ability to learn new skills on short notice.
Grit.
Emotional and intellectual maturity.
Most everything else is just details.
That said, there will likely be plenty of Enterprise Java, C, hardware, and whatnot lying around that needs old folks like us to maintain it. Those big AI models are gonna have to run on top of some hardware somewhere, after all.
How do you define intellectual maturity?
Since it’s very easy to be manipulated once you accept some info as being a “fact” or “BS”
And also repairing ancient electronics.
Parker earns his bread and butter as a System Operator, but in his other life he hunts down ancient consoles, cartridges and other gadgets. Now he has a new task: "borrow" a genuine Super Mario cartridge from Mr. Yamato in New Tokyo (to be continued...)
Someone will need to keep the old stuff alive. It might be 1980s-2000 vintage logic controllers in emulation by 2050, though.