As a hiring manager and a manager of engineers across the seniority spectrum… yeah, I think these traits now matter more than raw coding skill. They always did at senior levels, but now juniors need to start picking that up sooner because the ability to get code through the system is no longer a common bottleneck. Now matters of taste are far more obvious, and consequential.

The ability to understand the interactions between systems still matters a lot. Unfortunately AI does hit walls, and how well you can handle when it does is a big productivity differentiator. I consider myself lucky to have paid my dues well before coding agents entered the picture, and I feel for the people who are only just now entering at ground level because we really have no idea how to teach our discipline anymore.