[dragonwriter]

> if your response is “engineering is about a lot more than writing code” you’re right, but the “writing code” part is like 90% of the reason why you get paid what you do

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> the only black-pilled response is “someone has to talk to the llm”,

This is literally the exact same response as “engineering is about a lot more than writing code”, since “talking to the LLM” when the LLM is the main code writer is exactly doing the non-code-writing tasks while delegating code writing to the LLM which you supervise. Kind of like a lead engineer does anyway, where they do much of the design work, and delegate and guide most of the code writing (while still doing some of it themselves.)