Is learning artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning the only way to survive in this industry for the next decade or so?

That's a good question. I think, that software development industry has the future. ML is so new, that you can't fully depend on it. It is far more complicated than it seems. AI training process is extremely slow. If you want to build something nontrivial, you should have access to some powerful hardware to handle process of training. All in all, I think, Machine learning won't become the only way to survive anytime soon. We have plenty of time to continue creating apps, websites, services and rant about problems we encounter during debugging process 😂