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AI handles code generation fine, so what companies actually need from engineers now is judgment—asking the right questions, understanding context, and owning work end-to-end. The "10x engineer" mystique dies when the hard technical work becomes commodity.
- AI commodified technical output, so the premium skill is now judgment: knowing what questions to ask, understanding user impact, catching edge cases, and recognizing when a machine answer is wrong for your specific situation.
- People waste time with bloated documents and vague asks instead of being direct—attention is scarce and you need to earn it by being clear about what matters and what you actually need.
- The soft skills (accuracy, follow-through, evidence over theory, reaching done) were never actually soft—they're what separates someone who ships from someone who doesn't, and they're the only thing left that's actually hard to automate.