In my banking megacorp, despite having officially title of senior sw engineer, coding is maybe 10% of my time spent. And its the best, most creative part I actually enjoy. Why would I give up that? No real velocity gained even if all would be 1 click away in flawless production-ready state.
The real cruft of seniority is: processes, knowing right people and their buttons, politics, being there to fix obscure corner case production issues and so on. How can llm help me with that? It can't.
For code sweatshops they may be a blessing, for corporations drowning in regulations and internal abysmal labyrinths of their IT, not so much.
Lol, are you me? Also a senior developer at a financial institution. I've maybe coded like 1000 lines in the last 2 months. I just got a ticket recently that required code and it felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders to finally be able to put hands to keyboard again.
Dang hello, me too. I recently became tech lead at our fintech co, and the few days a month I get to code is like vacation for my mind. I still remember the good ol' days where nobody talked to me and I solved problems all day long.