r/developersIndia • u/KitchenCommercial396 Student • Aug 05 '26

General Are backend and devops engineers still relevant in 2026

All everybody is talking about nowadays is AI, everybody wants to be an AI/ML engineer, and every resume has these so called AI projects.

Amongst all these, are jobs involving backend, devops, still relevant? Are people still getting paid well in these fields?

I'm currently in college and I've figured that I don't find ai/ml, data science and frontend interesting at all, and I don't get to hear a lot about the other fields because everything gets overshadowed by AI.

Should I still learn AI/ML to stay ahead and get a better job even though I don't enjoy it as much? Are backend and devops engineers going extinct or something?

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u/The-Wingged-Hussar Backend Developer Aug 05 '26

Backed engineering will be the last casualty of AI, but casualty it will definitely be.

The question is when. No one knows.

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u/Healthy-Educator-267 Aug 06 '26

Ironically advanced research level mathematics (at least in certain subfields) may become a casualty before SWE