[nojvek]

I don’t think your analogy would not be true for Tesla.

My underlying theory is that software is how we map what is happening in the real world and represent a model of it in computer(s).

Great Software engineers have this amazing ability to represent this and write computations that can reason on top of it for effective decisions.

Whether it’s dashboards, social network, extracting patterns from data, advanced electric cars with autonomy, mobile phones etc.

If you can use the power of computers to do more of what is happening in the human brains to create economic value, then that is a highly leveraged engineer.