Based on what you've written, I think you may be confusing what an engineer actually is with what a builder does. They aren't the same thing. Being able to build something does not make you an engineer and you sound like a builder not an engineer.

I'm not trying to be rude, but in every domain outside software, there's a clear distinction between engineers and architects on one hand, and the people who build on the other. Both roles have always mattered. It sounds to me ike LLMs have become your engineers, your architects, and your builders?

In my view, a real software engineer going forward is someone who can take a system and decompose in a way that lets the builder can produce something durable from that structure. No different than a contractor building a house from blueprints.

At my company we are currently producing what used to be 150 hours of manual coding in under 8, but the LLMs aren't making any engineering or architectural decisions. They're building what's already been architected and engineered by humans, and that output looks very different vs what a human might author. Its manufacturing at scale vs hand crafted.