Advice for tech writers on a job hunt in the AI age

A friend of mine recently lost her job in a layoff. She looked at her résumé with a pang of despair and asked me for advice on what she should learn next. She hasn’t thrown in the towel on technical writing yet; she wants to find another tech writing job, despite the prevailing pessimism that besieges our craft. How does one upgrade to, say, content engineering, she asked.