Comment by mellosouls

Software Engineering feels a little less impacted?

I don't think so - software engineering has already been completely up-ended; we are showing mathematicians what is next for them.

Sure though wrt your point about mystique there is a difference in psychological importance and cultural meaning - maths at the highest level is far more intellectually challenging and even "glamorous" and represents one of the peaks of human achievement. Ironically though if we allow the invention of AI belongs to our (software engineering) field, this is the first time we've matched those peaks.

I agree with you on not missing manual coding, which in some way surprises me - but it's been a long time since I had the passion of my youth for it.