Yeah, and it could have been (and in many place has been) like this all the time, LLMs or not. That was my point. The change is not due to the (albeit very real) help given by LLMs, it's due to a change of attitude in management. Magically this person who used to write code once every two weeks now has time to fully focus on coding, again.

Ya. And strangely for me it’s the opposite. I went from 50% coding to 10% because coding is so much faster and it’s easier to delegate to more junior engineers. Seems like a codebases needs to be VERY technically deep to justify spending a senior+ engineers time coding all day, as opposites to problem solving and design.