why wouldnt AI replace engineering?

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Anonymous wrote:there's a steady drumbeat of "AI will replace coders" and "AI will replace lawyers"

and yet everyone is still pushing their kids into engineering. I dont get it. engineering seems as/more vulnerable to me.

Engineers have to take into account human behavior as well as physics. AI just doesn’t understand human behavior.

So...engineers dabble in psychology too? Yeah, right.

Yes. It's an aspect of human factors engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:No one is getting on a plane designed by AI. No one is moving into a skyscraper designed by AI. No one is launching a rocket designed by AI. No one is buying a car created by AI. No one is relying on a power plant built by AI. And on and on. There is a nexus of creativity and technical ingenuity in engineering that cannot be replicated by AI. And if AI ever gets to the point where it displaces engineers, civilization will have already collapsed long ago.

People are overestimating where AI is presently. Look at what Google has been doing recently. Your searches are getting AI responses, which can be helpful for simple things. But it always misses nuance, context and complexity. AI is making us dumber by the minute. But engineering can't afford to be dumb.

Would you rather get into a plan designed by a human engineer ast Boeing, and have pieces fall off mid flight?

I'm in aerospace - not at Boeing - and right now, yes you do only want to get in the plane designed by a person.

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AI can be a great asset to science and development.

https://news.gatech.edu/news/2025/07/15/georgia-tech-build-20m-national-ai-supercomputer

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AI will only affect the lowest level or tech positions, below the level that a BSE from a top50 program typically gets and well below the jobs that ivy/stanford/UCB/CMU/GT get with a BSE