Think more code less

Writing a lot of code is commonly a measure of good software engineer, however, I think in coming times a good software engineer will be one who spends most of the time thinking about not writing code

There are millions of open source components on GitHub and other SCM hosting open source. Finding an appropriate component to fit into the design will be more effective than coding one. The Open Source component will provide documentation, community help, moreover, it will be digested by LLMs which can be used creatively to enhance it further to your match your use case.

Source code that is written today will be obsolete in 5 to 7 years, the solution building however will provide long term value. In coming years writing code can be done by a coding buddy agent based on some LLM

If you are software engineer then spend more time thinking about not writing code