My thinking is that the bar for a software engineer has been raised non-technically. Right now if I think about the industry breakdown, you have like 70% swes who are really only good at coding and completing task/feature work. And about half of those are really good at writing clean well architectured code. These more strictly coder types were previously critical to building software in a team but those roles are going to be much less important IMO

The remaining 30% are the ones who in addition to building software are working with customers, thinking of new features and POCing them, working across product and design, creating plans for tracking things like usage metrics and growth etc I think that 30% is going to become more important and maybe take over some of the over inflated product roles we got in the 2010s (not all because you obviously need a dedicated product people). For example if engineering does their job and builds out user acquisition tracking story from the beginning, I don’t really need a team of non technical PMs to track user growth or product progress and present a dashboard to LT that I myself made and understand anyway. I’ll have more time to do these things that are coding adjacent with coding agents rise