Ask HN: Beyond the AI Bandwagon

I live in Bangalore and work as a junior SDE at some unknown small company and want to boost my career. My current job is maintaining some boring CRUD like apps in python/C++. I see the industry is obssessed with AI esp lang model ones or at least it seems in the echo chamber. My question is what to learn and invest in for long term relevance. Databases? OS? IoT? AwS? COBOL? I am open for anything and everything. I love programming and want to do interesting things not sure what tho lol.