For the record, I don't think AI is likely to replace those parts of the work, at least not in the near term (15-20 years). But at many companies, the people interfacing with stakeholders or users — deciding what problems need solving and how to solve them — are product owners or project managers, not software engineers.
I think there will be a convergence where AI enables more POs to create software directly, and more SEs move up the value chain to work on product-level problem solving.
I think there will be a convergence where AI enables more POs to create software directly, and more SEs move up the value chain to work on product-level problem solving.