> Engineers who don't mind reading and are able to read attentively

One very direct application of this skill in day to day engineering is just reading and correctly interpreting error logs and stacktraces.

It's pretty incredible how often that's just the cause of a bug being literally given verbatim, if one can only engage with the message on its terms and frame of reference, and parse out the info from it that's meaningful in the context of the software you're writing (and not, for instance, expecting the error message to somehow do that work for you, which is often impossible).