As a staff engineer, you have multiple responsibilities you need to cover, and you can delegate some of them. The reality is that in most teams you can delegat

As a staff engineer, you have multiple responsibilities you need to cover, and you can delegate some of them. The reality is that in most teams you can delegate the "Deep Diver" responsibility most of the time. "Context sharing" and "Coaching" not so much. So yes, as some comments in other threads mention, your coding/hard tech contributions diminish with time.