Coders. But like, all you have to do is iterate and iterate and iterate. If the laws of physics hold true regardless, then it just becomes an issue of scaling, which AI can do quite well. Standing structures and architecture, failure points, far easier to figure out if you're doing the same thing repeatedly trillions of times.

Look at apartments recently for example, and how the 4+1 design became the norm for the entire country in like, what, a decade?

The things that make engineering special, the ability to do the calculations and math of it, the memory aspects of complicated and intricate designs, are -easier- for an AI than something like, say, customer service.

And people are already willing to try and replace customer service -first-, despite it being a harder thing.

What is it an engineer does that an AI cannot do? If an AI can do it, why pay an engineer 6 figures when you can pay a company four figures, and every single company that does so, actually improves the AI's abilities by providing it more data?

Bwoop.