[oblio]

The question is... writing the code is a very small part of the job.

Figuring out what code to write is one of the big parts.

Fixing it when it breaks in many creative ways is the other big part.

How good is ChatGPT at fixing bugs? Security bugs or otherwise?

[vasco]

Sure but the other parts you don't need an engineering degree for, the other parts amount to design / product work, not engineering.

[oblio]

1. You don't need an engineering degree for software development in many, many cases. So I don't understand your argument.

2. Engineers design stuff :-) I'm not sure what you mean with "product work". Also, engineers debug and fix stuff :-)

[zeroonetwothree]

Product work = figuring out what to build

[oblio]

Product work is a fractal and you don't want "product people" designing things past the 2nd or 3rd fractal step, in my experience.