Comment by ilaksh
4 hours ago
Those are good points, but that mostly comes down to lack of organizational status or office politics etc. which is independent of capability level and largely orthogonal to whether it's a human programmer or an AI agent. Unless you are redefining "software engineer" to be more like a political operator. But that goes for any human group and any job. And anyway after a certain level, not providing the senior engineers and or project managers with sufficient political sway to realize projects goals is a management failure. Unless again you are defining software engineer as someone who is a master social manipulator in the context of their job.
A big part of an engineering performing requirements analysis is owning the technical understanding of the requirements and identifying areas where the requirements are not technically feasible, can be done with less expense with adjustments, or can be better achieved with a different solution.
AI will help you draft the communication of that knowledge, but it won't help you actually deliver the knowledge or ensure that the knowledge was appropriately received. As you say, it is a fundamentally human problem, which is why I maintain that writing code is easier.