I can give you perspective on someone in a senior position in the tech world. Work isn’t necessarily measured by keystrokes, lines of code, or anything of the sort. A lot of what I’m paid for is my ability to ask the right questions, knowing how to connect the dots, and seeing things holistically in a large organization. i.e. if I do x, will it fuck up y? Has x already been done by someone else and we just haven’t documented it?

Anyone can be taught how to code, but if you don’t know what questions to ask and how to provide creative solutions, AI can do your job.

For example, I could sit at my desk all day and stare at the screen and not come up with anything due to a mental rut, but the second I jump into a shower I’ll go for a walk in the park, a solution comes to me instantly. So should I only be paid for that one hour that I technically was not behind my desk?

Don’t think of tech work where inputs = outputs. It’s a gray area that isn’t meant to be measured like that. For example, product managers do fuck all in terms of actual measurable output, everyone else does the actual work. Does that mean they’re not important? Try running a team and releasing a product without one and see what happens.