Google Engineer Prioritizes Learning New Skills to Avoid AI Burnout0

• AI, as-told-to, Careers, changing-workplace-big-bet, google, Tech
• March 3, 2026

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Pratiksha Patnaik, a 30-year-old cloud infrastructure engineer at Google Cloud Consulting, based in Seattle. Her identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I’ve been with Google for around three years and I started as an