> This is an interesting corollary to a thing I'm seeing where "devs who thought their job was writing code" are in like existential danger.

I think you're misunderstanding that anxiety. I think this is what's going on:

1. For a lot of people, using technical skills like coding is the part of the job they enjoyed.

2. Closely related to the above point: for a lot of people, technical skills was the part they were good at.

> Technical skills aren't worth shit and never were, except as far as they enable you to engage with other people in ways you and they find valuable. This used to be really far! It made it easy to believe that the technical skills on their own were what was valuable.

> But the engagement was always the valuable thing, generating technical insight was a necessary prerequisite for it. Now anyone with a $20 claude sub can generate technical insight into niche problems, so what's left is everything else. Everything of value.

3. More broadly: if "they" don't find the "technical skills" you provided valuable anymore, why do they need to keep you around? Why not cut your 10-person team down to 3 people (the manager, architect, and technical lead) and fire you and the other 6? Not everyone can re-invent themselves as a product person, even if they had the skills. It's a game of musical chairs.