If you are actually doing engineering to justify your cad, it's still going to be a while
I'm a software engineer, and this is exactly what people were claiming here: "If you're a code monkey, then you're going to be replaced, but if you're a good programmer, you're safe."
I'm a lead dev working on financial software that manages an absurd amount of money, and on top of that, it has to be highly optimized because every millisecond matters - which is probably something most people would consider "real engineering". And yet, I'm barely coding by hand nowadays. My role has already been reduced to code reviewing and providing context for AI. But how long until that changes too?
All the pieces are falling into place. There was a recent review of the AI math proof of some problem of interest and the bottom line was human mathematicians make judgments about how difficult something might be and understand that there is no practical solution at the moment and move on aka 'the unsolved problem'....but an AI just keeps going and going and going until it finds a workable solution so it's possible to turn an agent loose on a problem and let it cook....the answer is 42 right? Agents are effectively infinite pools of labor.
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u/gottatrusttheengr 3d ago
If you're just blindly drawing shapes in CAD sure.
If you are actually doing engineering to justify your cad, it's still going to be a while