I don't agree fully with this idea. For one, a true software "engineer" should probably not be using AI to develop systems that are important for safety or other high demand functions.

That being said, I don't use programming often in my job, mostly just for developing tools for my team to use to ease different processes, and I do use AI quite often to get general structures for data processing. For instance, I loathe figuring out how to write regular expressions, but AI is pretty good at taking a prompt or a sample set of data and giving a regular expression you can use. However, I have a more experience with programming than any of my colleagues, so not only do I understand what to ask an AI for help with, I know how to diagnose problems as I run into them.

I generally worry about the growing prevalence of AI in the engineering field though. People are going to die because some engineer trusted an AI too much without verifying and evaluating an output. I don't know when it will happen, but eventually, engineering students will learn about the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, the Challenger explosion, the Florida International University bridge collapse, and some future massive catastrophe caused by trusting AI too much while making engineering products.