You make a good point and those kind of senior engineer skills may be the least affected. My post does not argue against that. It argues that writing code manually may quickly become obsolete.
What I am trying to say is that people who see the output of their work as "code" will be replaced just like human computers did. I believe even debugging will be increasingly aided by AI. I do not believe that AI will eliminate the need for system understanding, just to be clear.
Then again, you might argue that writing lines of code and manually debugging issues is exactly what builds your understanding of the system. I agree with that too, I suppose the challenge will be maintaining deep system knowledge as more tasks become automated.
What I am trying to say is that people who see the output of their work as "code" will be replaced just like human computers did. I believe even debugging will be increasingly aided by AI. I do not believe that AI will eliminate the need for system understanding, just to be clear.
Then again, you might argue that writing lines of code and manually debugging issues is exactly what builds your understanding of the system. I agree with that too, I suppose the challenge will be maintaining deep system knowledge as more tasks become automated.