Most traditional tech roles, as we know them today, are not going to exist in two, three, four years—maybe even sooner. In this video I break down what that actually means for IT people heading into 2026, because AI isn’t going anywhere. The real risk isn’t “AI replacing you overnight”—it’s you not using AI while everyone else becomes faster, more automated, and way more effective. I walk through the trends and tools I’m seeing blow up in the industry: ChatGPT (especially the paid/enterprise versions with guard rails and access controls), Microsoft Copilot inside the M365 ecosystem, and the shift into agentic AI with tools like CrewAI—where agents don’t just answer, they plan, reason, and take actions. Then I get into Replit, which is honestly the bomb for building and deploying apps and scripts without needing to be a hardcore developer, and Zapier AI, which connects thousands of apps so you can automate real workflows end-to-end. My takeaway: the people who win are the ones pairing these tools with solid fundamentals—networking, systems, security—and using AI to automate patching, scripting, monitoring, and reporting.