How do I keep up with AI autonomy in drones?

You either resist the new autonomy or do not understand it, and both leave you standing outside a change that is not going to wait. The resistance is understandable; you built real skill on doing this yourself. But refusing to understand the new tools does not protect that skill. It just leaves you behind them. Autonomy is not the end of your expertise; it is a new layer on top of it. Someone still has to know when the system is right, when it is out of its depth, and when to take the controls back. That someone can only be a pilot who understands both how to fly and how the automation thinks. Understanding it is not surrender. It is how you stay the one in command instead of the one made obsolete. So turn resistance into curiosity, one piece at a time. Pick one autonomous feature and learn exactly what it does, where it helps, and where it fails. Understanding beats both blind resistance and blind trust, and it is the only path that keeps you the pilot rather than the passenger.