[maxbond]

If you're producing a technological artifact and you are ensuring it has certain properties while working within certain constraints, then in my mind you're engineering and it's a question of the degree of rigor. Engineers in the "hard engineering" fields (eg mechanical engineers, civil engineers) a rule don't build the things they design, they spend a lot of time managing/working with contractors.

[Planktonne]

> If you're producing a technological artifact and you are ensuring it has certain properties while working within certain constraints, then in my mind you're engineering

This covers every level of management in tech companies.

[maxbond]

Not really, upper levels of management are more concerned with strategic decisions, they aren't making sure certain invariants are upheld.

[archagon]

I’m pretty sure engineers in those professions need to know the physical/mathematical properties of their designs inside and out. The contractors are not involved in that and have limited autonomy.

I would not want to drive over a vibe-coded bridge.