> I shared a link to my personal project with the interviewer. It was a website for learning how to program

> We, the developers, are no longer the gatekeepers

This word you keep using: I do not think you know what it means.

Software engineering is the practice of taking a concrete problem, converting it into a set of rules (a world model), and then converting those rules into something a computer can execute for a human user.

As long as AI cannot dynamically generate a true world model on the fly, it will continue to fall short.

Counterpoint: software engineers are not obsolete.