I'm a junior dev and I feel a bit lost.

There are too many things to learn now: AI, frameworks, libraries, cloud, DevOps, system design, etc.

Every time I open Reddit or YouTube, I find another thing that I feel I should learn.

My goal is not only to build new features.

I want to understand software well enough to maintain old systems, fix problems, refactor code, and improve the system when it gets bigger.

With AI changing development so fast, what should a junior dev focus on first?

What should I learn deeply, and what can I leave for later?

Would love to hear advice from experienced devs.

So I was just learning well for like 1.5 years now.

I did HTML, CSS, JS, Reactjs, build many projects and was being familiar to Nextjs now.

And now I see about Ai, how crazy it is and also stopped getting freelance clients anymore too for work.

Should I like just keep learning and do MERN stack and apply for job at this point or just pick something else that can still get me some work now?

I'm so confused right now, feels like almost 2 years went to waste trying to learn programming and web development to make it my career.