Comment by DenisM

AI is the dark energy of engineering - it pushes us further apart, faster. Some of us get pushed towards slop, others towards formal spec validation, and as time goes it will be harder and harder to see each other.

A while back a knowledgeable man was a philosopher, and they could all easily talk to each other and understand. As time went we split up - we have philosophy doctors in various fields who have very little to talk about.

This happened again when the term “engineer” fractured (even before software engineering). Software engineering itself fractured, too.

And it’s happening again now.