Over my career, the higher up the pay grade I went, the less actual code I was writing and the more it was figuring out what to do, what's priority, how the existing code all fits together, evaluating risk, and how to make the right surgical incisions to accomplish the goals.

Glorious and quite rare is the moment when a problem is clearly written up by a PM and the codebase is greenfield or clear enough that just pumping out code is happening and taking up my day.

Most senior software engineers are less programmer and more analyst.