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Oh please... Not more "liasons..." Great analysis. Agree on everything including the point about some current programmers shifting to roles as "liasons" helping to communicate between business and technical teams. That trend is actually the biggest problem within "information technology" today. As virtualization, big-data technologies, myriads of GUI and web service frameworks and now machine learning and AI have exploded, a large swath of merely average engineers (coding, sys admin operations, security) who were unwilling / unable to keep pace with these technologies were pushed out or actively fled the driver's seat to adopt roles as team leads or (worse) representing their team as "team architects." In my last job, we had web services teams who would ROUTINELY quote 3 month intervals to create a new CRUD / REST web service for a simple one dimensional data object in a single table. With Spring Boot and Spring Data, that work should take about an hour to get something running, even less if starting with an existing web service as a skeleton. By my estimate, a team of 25 such developers had (literally) about 4 doing 95% of the work, maybe 15 doing the other 5% of work and the remaining 6 had literally not written a line of code in 12+ years, certainly nothing in any of the modern tooling. People migrating to these roles after "falling behind" are doing major damage to the reputation of this field. If you wondered why other organizations in your company aren't comfortable letting your IT team solve their needs, interacting with out-of-touch "liasons" who don't understand what's hard and don't understand what's easy are a big reason why you may see work taken away and outsourced.