In organizations that have separate management and IC tracks, there tend to be two ways that the IC track is interpreted as you become more senior: 1) You spen

In organizations that have separate management and IC tracks, there tend to be two ways that the IC track is interpreted as you become more senior: 1) You spend just as much time as you did before in development, only working on harder stuff. 2) You become more like an architect or an attending physician, where you're spending some time in development and some time teaching or consulting more junior devs. I think most senior ICs would prefer #1, but in reality #2 is more common.