The part of the job AI keeps missing

There was a moment, sometime in 2023, when I started to feel it. Not panic, but a kind of alertness. The articles were everywhere. AI replacing engineers, entire roles becoming obsolete overnight. And there I was, managing a team of them. I was never particularly worried. I've always believed that the human element in building software, the judgment, the relationships, the context that lives between people, isn't something that can be quietly absorbed by a model. But being confident isn't the sa