So hey, what AI Tools are you using as part of your EUC Engineering work? Also, what Skills do you think will be important in the next 5 years, related to EUC Engineering?

My scripting knowledge isn't strong so I lean on it to help with that. I am pushing my team to learn more scripting/IAC/devops skills as a lot of cloud infra, EUC or otherwise, will be deployed and maintained via code. From my perspective most customers are heading towards Azure or AWS so I'd be looking at learning those two platforms, but there's also opportunities to specialise in GCP, OCI or one of the other niche cloud providers if that's where your business or customers are at.

I use ChatGPT to assist with some writing refinement and to help lay out some documentation. Copilot integrated with Visual Studio Code is a great help for my meager coding skills. Definitely think learning IAC whether Ansible, Terraform, or both will be very helpful. When you understand declarative, you can see that learning the Azure, AWS, GCP isn't as important since you can use the same IAC files with whichever platform, after making a few modifications. Concepts like EC2 versus VM and how the networking is accomplished will still be important, but the libraries for each cloud provider make these easily manageable IMHO.

I've already started using it few weeks ago, I've been automated heavily pur env via PowerShell mainly. Claude.ai is pretty amazing, Gemini (pro trial available), CoPilot with VSCode is pretty good. I think we are out of this job in 5 years.

For AI to take over, it would require users to be able to correctly describe their issues, and management to describe their needs. I doubt they will be able to do that within 5 years, unless we replace the users with AI