Comment by sanderjd

This is well put and something I have tried to express to people.

Long before LLMs came onto the scene, I was telling people (like friends and family trying to understand what I do at work) that the actual coding part of the job is the least valuable, but that you just do still have to be able to write the code once you do the more valuable work of figuring out what to write.

But LLMs have made that distinction far more clear than I ever imagined. And I have found that for all my previous talk about it, I clearly still felt that the "writing the code" part was an important portion of my contribution, and have found it jarring to rebalance my conception of where I can contribute value.