More people believe a software developer job and value is in the lines of code produced.

Perhaps over half of engineering managers unconsciously or admittedly take the amount of PR and code additions as a rough but valid measure of productivity.

I recall a role in architecture, senior director asking me how come a principal engineer didn't commit any code in 2 weeks, that we pay principals a fortune.

I asked that brilliant mind whether we paid principal engineers to code or to make sure we deliver value.

Needless to say the with question went unanswered, so called Principal was fired a few months later. The entire company in fact was sold for a bargain too given it had thousands of clients globally.

The LLM can replace engineers is a phenomenon that converge from two simple facts, we haven't solved the misconception of the engineering roles. And it's the perfect scapegoat to justify layoffs.

Leaders haven't all gone insane, they answer to difficult questions with the narrative of least resistance.

> Leaders haven't all gone insane, they answer to difficult questions with the narrative of least resistance.

Brilliantly said. I’d like to add - a distorted narrative actively, intentionally established and maintained by the entities profiting from the technology. Quite similar to the crypto scam hype cycle.