Hot take, but if you're doing a lot of soft skills work with non-developers, you might be carrying the team too much. You're very much right that those jobs won

Hot take, but if you're doing a lot of soft skills work with non-developers, you might be carrying the team too much. You're very much right that those jobs won't go away because that would mean people around the developer would then have to do more work and be more technical. What would be great is for senior ICs to push into non-IC roles (ideally: ICs can use AI, so you need less ICs but this is unproven). Technical skills and knowledge applied to writing requirements cuts down on the number of conversations around those requirements. Then you get closer to a "greenfield spec -> bang out AI-generated code" situation because you're not slogging and negotiating through requirements written by non-technical people.