Comment by orangebread

In my experience development has become too compartmentalized. This is why this game of telephone is so inefficient and frustrating just to implement basic features.

The rise of AI actually is also raising (from my observations) the engineer's role to be more of a product owner. I would highly suggest engineers learn basic UI/UX design principles and understand gherkin behavior scenarios as a way to outline or ideate features. It's not too hard to pick up if you've been a developer for awhile, but this is where we are headed.