Comment by JustExAWS

Technical skill has never been valuable after a certain point except for rare exceptions.

If you look at the leveling guidelines of any major tech company. Technical skill alone only gets you to a mid level job. After that it’s about scope, impact and dealing with ambiguity.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-...

A competitive advantage is knowing how to communicate business value from using technology.