I am currently a DevOps engineer but with the names switching up every couple of years, it is now splitting into platform engineering and SRE and other titles. I recently decided to take a moment to see what I actually like to do so I can specialize properly, and while I liked coding, with the introduction of AI, I really want to use it as a tool and not as an agent that does everything and I review. I asked around and searched and people told me that Cloud Engineering is more architecture and closer to what I want. Platform engineering (to my knowledge) can either be DevOps with a different name or in simple terms, a mini SWE and DevOps for the internal teams in the org and SRE is what it probably says, Site Reliability Engineer. The intent of this post is to ask professionals here about the reality of the situation as I haven't been anything other than a DevOps engineer (played with everything I mentioned above but didn't specialize so my knowledge is limited).…