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> If it were, the median e.g. business analyst should be getting paid significantly more than the median software engineer.

What if you replace "business analyst" with "software architect"?

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Or tech lead and senior engineer. Because they spend more time doing the first two than that last one.

I spend most of my time talking to stakeholders and BAs to help them better understand what their actual problem is instead of coming to me with "we want this" :/

Writing the code is the trivial part.

Writing code is the trivial part, yet it can be quite time consuming. I know what I want, so I don't want to care about the trivial minutae, same as I care very little what machine code falls out of my compiler. LLMs aren't capable yet to enable this easily and reliably, but they present a (often useful) glimpse.

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