Yes.

Engineering’s job has always been to deal with hard technical challenges and apply new technologies.

Writing code was never the point. Predictably creating specific outcomes was. Wrangling AI in a way that multiplies productivity is the new job.

I won’t lie, it kind of sucks to be young right now, learn about punch cards and assembly in school, and then graduate into a market that’s moved on to Fortran. Sorry, I meant high level languages and AI. To say otherwise might imply the industry has seen a similar shift in the past where engineers made the exact same complaints practically verbatim.

Regardless, the reality is that college teaches very little about 90% of real engineering work anyway, and we still need to hire smart people for this new type of work.