"the skills that the new engineering landscape actually requires: system design, architectural thinking, product reasoning, security awareness, and the ability to critically evaluate code they did not write."
These, surely, are the skills they always needed? Anyone who didn't have these skills was little more than a human chatgpt already, receiving prompts and simply presenting the results to someone for evaluation.
That’s a great point, but yes: a lot of devs were nothing more than a glorified LLM and during reviews were just an expensive linter. Reality is catching up to those.