Jordan, along with many others in various ways, has recently questioned the future of software engineers. Righfully so, given the amount of statements made by "BigAI" along with less direction observations from practitioners.
Hey, we don't often encounter systems which output code, do we? A system which can succintly and rapidlyreference all the popular programming languages, frameworks, libraries, documents.
It's only natural and healthy to ping-pong questions between our own role and the capabilities of said system. Introspection upon oneself is the first step to understanding and to building "taste", as a chef would say. Or as people explaining "vibe-coding".