It seems to me that memory safety might be the difference between the software engineering and Software Engineering. As in, an actual Engineering discipline.

However, I should probably pipe down, as I would not call myself either one.

There are too many opensource projects that show that even with good engineering discipline humans are flawed creatures.

Memory safety is just little thing that makes sure that when you write code at 4am that it will not leak memory via trivial mistakes such as forgetting to free something, freeing something twice or passing a freed pointer. I believe AI agents shine here the most because the they do not get tired and are getting pretty damn predictable.