As a software developer or engineer, your ability to communicate effectively will be your most important skill and definitely more important than your ability to translate specs into code.
Why?
The value of producing code is approaching zero rapidly with the use of Generative AI that has been tuned to produce code of the desired quality.
People that are producing AI slop in software have yet to master the art of communicating specs effectively to get the right results. As the old adage says: garbage in, garbage out.
The developer who writes better prompts wins.
