> I’m often alone on this. Engineers look at complex systems with many interesting parts and think “wow, a lot of system design is happening here!”

Whenever I read something like this I feel so confused. Who actually calls themselves an engineer when they have no idea what they're talking about. Ignorant confidence is such a useless personality trait.

Hackers can add weight to an aircraft as fast - if not faster - than formally-trained engineers.

As long as we keep measuring LOCs or features added, there will always be jobs for them.

Unless it's encouraged by the modern technical interviewing culture, which it partly is.