When you lose track of time for hours on end, when you keep avoiding going to sleep for as long as you can keep your eyes open and then you can't wait to get up early even if you had just 3-4 hours of sleep to do the same thing you did yesterday, and the day before, and the day before the day before, the thing you are passionate about and keeps you engaged and inspired, that's a good way of specializing. I'm not talking about being addicted but about being productive, doing something that gives you satisfaction when you are productive and get it right, and then, even in the case of learning to code, it would not even matter if AI will become too good at it(which I doubt it will happen that fast, way many other specialized jobs would disappear before the software engineering ones).

Regarding AI, if you don't know about huggingface.co, you should take a look, it's a huge rabbit hole, tens of thousands of models and apps. I don't worry about AI, ill embrace it as much as i can or need, I do worry more about the huge number of tools available and coming up and I cringe and struggle to pick something when I have too many options, that's my bigger problem. 😁