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> My value in software engineering isn't in typing up the loop, and less even in knowing that I'll need one. It's in knowing how to manage complexity across a broader cross integration of concerns. The way I'm doing that will change as technology advances, but it will still be some time before that part is automated too.

I think this is just normalcy bias on your part. The thing that GPT-4 does apparently works at most levels of complexity, certainly more than GPT-3.

It seems likely that, for sufficiently high N, GPT-N will enable your boss to, as you say, "manage complexity across a broad[er] cross integration of concerns".

There's nothing magical about "cross integration of concerns," any more than there was something magical about being able to use (say) `git rebase` correctly.

There is no reason to think that GPT-N won't be better at you for that, too.

Why would your boss pay you six figures when she can get the same deal for $20 a month?