There is an interesting patternp... every AI lab pushing "engineers are obsolete" is simultaneously hiring the absolute best engineers they can find. Liquid AI just added Ion Stoica.
The labs that build the tools are the loudest about how the work is done. And the way they describe it is: a human sits down, owns the architecture and the judgment, and the model builds against that. "I think about the problem, the AI implements it."
A lot of people do the inverse: "I type two sentences and wait for it to magically produce exactly what I meant."
This is why I think that this is the best moment to be someone with real expertise, not the worst. The skill still matters; you just got leverage on it that didn't exist before.