Comment by ryandrake

For most senior software engineer roles at companies I've seen, the act of actually thinking about, designing, and writing code is probably 25% or less of your job. There's so much other non-development stuff that goes on. Advocating for features, writing boilerplate docs, seeking stamps of approval for this and that, reviewing other people's work, navigating internal process (your release is gated by Deployment System X which is waiting for Privacy and Legal sign-off), interviewing, writing down what work you've done for your next annual review with your manager, and of course meetings, meetings, meetings. Even if AI does speed up coding by 30-50%, that's maybe 10-15% of actual savings.