[giraffe_lady]

Every good engineer is an excellent communicator. Everyone who is not an excellent communicator is not a good engineer. Everyone hates that this is true but it remains true. A lot of people are very good programmers who have mistaken that for being good engineers, however.

[phito]

And this is the determining factor to whether a current dev will be replaced by AI or will evolve alongside with it, being the bridge between humans and AI.

Which is not really different to what we're already doing, translating human requirements to machine code. Just that communication skills will become an even bigger part of the job.

[fsckboy]

people who do not understand orthogonality also take poor measurements.

[giraffe_lady]

I'm not sure what you're implying.