- Increasingly, senior people are choosing to leave management and become "high‑impact" individual contributors — aka "conscious unbossing" or the "Super IC" — preferring hands‑on work over running teams.
- AI is the enabler: it automates the grunt work so one person can ship projects that used to need whole teams, boosting IC output and compensation to rival managers.
- Consequences for companies: entry‑level hiring is shrinking and junior roles are vanishing unless firms build senior IC career paths and train young people to operate and audit AI tools.
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