AI can’t do our jobs today, but we’re only 2.5 years from the release of chatGPT. The performance of these models might plateau today, but we simply don’t know. If they continue to improve at the current rate for 3-5 more years, it’s hard for me to see how human input would be useful at all in engineering.
They will never be creative, and creativity is a pretty big deal.
And if my plane keeps the take-off acceleration up for 7 months we'd be at 95% the speed of light by then.