Is AI workflow automation actually a worthwhile skill to invest time learning right now, or is this one of those trendy areas that’s oversaturated by the time you’d actually become useful at it?
Asking from a career development angle rather than a personal productivity one. Curious if people who’ve picked this up recently have seen any real professional benefit, or if it mostly stays internal.
From running a consulting practice: client demand for this specific skill set has grown noticeably in the last couple years, especially among small and mid-size businesses that want efficiency gains but don’t have in-house technical staff to build it themselves.
worth noting the skill ceiling here is fairly approachable compared to full software development. you can become genuinely useful with the no-code and low-code platforms without needing a programming background, which lowers the barrier to entry meaningfully.
The saturation concern is fair but the actual market is still pretty fragmented, lots of businesses haven’t adopted any of this yet, so there’s real room even if the online discourse about it feels crowded.
My honest take: it’s a good adjacent skill to have alongside something else (marketing, content, ops) rather than a standalone career path for most people. It makes you more valuable in whatever you’re already doing rather than being a job title on its own for most roles.
The practical advice I’d give: build one real automation that solves an actual problem you have, rather than studying the concept abstractly. That single project teaches you more than any course and gives you something concrete to point to.