I don't get this. I work in a part of the industry where "passes 80% of the test suite" is worth approximately $0/mo, which is the best opus can do without a human hand holding it.
But I read the OP's argument to mean that your responsibility as an engineer is now to understand the tasks an agent can accelerate. And in many cases that might be the task that you previously enjoyed, like working out some tricky variable length encoding serialization scheme, or tracking down some nefarious race condition by stepping through code and reasoning. (The eureka moment is a big dopamine hit for me, dunno about you.)
But I read the OP's argument to mean that your responsibility as an engineer is now to understand the tasks an agent can accelerate. And in many cases that might be the task that you previously enjoyed, like working out some tricky variable length encoding serialization scheme, or tracking down some nefarious race condition by stepping through code and reasoning. (The eureka moment is a big dopamine hit for me, dunno about you.)