I think a huge reason why LLMs are so far ahead in programming is because programming exists entirely in a known and totally severed digital environment outside our own. To become a master programmer all you need is a laptop and an internet connection. The nature of it existing entirely in a parallel digital universe just lends itself perfectly to training.
All of that is to say that I don't think the classic engineering fields have some kind of knowledge or intuition that is truly inaccessible to LLMs, I just think that it is in a form that is too difficult right now to train on. However if you could train a model on them, I strongly suspect they would get to the same level they are at today with software.
All of that is to say that I don't think the classic engineering fields have some kind of knowledge or intuition that is truly inaccessible to LLMs, I just think that it is in a form that is too difficult right now to train on. However if you could train a model on them, I strongly suspect they would get to the same level they are at today with software.