You have to move up the stack and make yourself a more valuable product. I have an analogy… I’ve been working for cloud consulting companies/departments for s

You have to move up the stack and make yourself a more valuable product. I have an analogy… I’ve been working for cloud consulting companies/departments for six years. Customers were willing to pay mid level (L5) consultants with @amazon.com by their names (AWS ProServe) $x to do one “workstream”/epic worth of work. I got paid $x - Amazon’s cut in cash and RSUs. Once I got Amazon’ed, I had to get a staff level position (senior equivalent at BigTech) at a third party company where now I am responsible for larger projects. Before I would have needed people - now I need code gen tools and my quarter century of development experience and my decade of experience leading implementations + coding.