> Leaders can now validate assumptions, explore design directions, parse logs, and reason about architecture faster than ever ... You can be technical today without being deep in code every hour of the day.

No they can't. I've never seen this go well. The use of AI in this way will merely start a conversation with your devs and if you insist on your opinions based on what the AI told you you're going to lose massive amounts of trust with your team.

> ICs can operate at a higher strategic level without getting bogged down in mechanical work.

ICs have always been forced to be strategic with their architecture and specific technical decisions only to get the credit taken away from them by upper management when it goes well and play defense in the blame game when it doesn't go so well. Nothing has changed.