Managers need to keep finding efficiencies or else the company will eventually find the efficiency of making them not part of the company anymore.
The hiring bar is going up partly because it’s become possible to spend the effort that would’ve gone into hiring to instead vibecode tools to do the easy bits of the required job - and delegate the rest, while finding new efficiencies in other team members’ roles to make room for what’s newly delegated. The net result is the same work getting done with fewer headcount.
The broad effect is the economy becomes more efficient and new jobs get created just as old jobs get divvied up according to the “replaceability” of each of the many roles that make up a particular job.
The hiring bar is going up partly because it’s become possible to spend the effort that would’ve gone into hiring to instead vibecode tools to do the easy bits of the required job - and delegate the rest, while finding new efficiencies in other team members’ roles to make room for what’s newly delegated. The net result is the same work getting done with fewer headcount.
The broad effect is the economy becomes more efficient and new jobs get created just as old jobs get divvied up according to the “replaceability” of each of the many roles that make up a particular job.