> I’ve been lucky to work with and manage a lot of great senior engineers. When I think about what made them great, I keep landing on the same thing: they seemed to know what needed to be done. There’s an intuition there that I’ve always admired.

This is so true. Every senior engineer I've worked with knew what needs to be done regardless how big a particular initiative/project was. Most of the time they even had a hunch or a vague idea on how to do it as well, but they were so good at breaking things into smaller parts and get the important things done first.

Recently with AI I've realized how easy it has become to figure out how to do something as well. I can just play around and explore a solution and ask the LLM to code it in the code base and then I can actually go through the solution on high level and see how it would work/not work without doing brain gymnastics trying to figure it out all in my head because I'm obviously too lazy to write any code just to experiment.