Are we still engineers… or just really good prompt writers now❓

Last Tuesday I fixed a bug in about four minutes. Not a small bug either. It was one of those authentication edge cases that only shows up when a user has a certain combination of OAuth scopes and a session that's technically valid but partially expired. The kind of thing that in a previous life would have cost me two hours, a lot of console.log statements, and at least one long stare out the window. I described it to an AI assistant, pasted some context, and got back a fix that actually worked. I tested it, shipped it, and moved on. Then I sat back and thought: what just happened? Not in a bad way. Not in a grateful way either. Just... genuinely, what did I do there? Did I solve that problem? Or did I facilitate someone else solving it? The way it used to feel When I started writing code seriously, there was a certain texture to the work that I don't think I fully appreciated until it started changing. You'd read through something — a library's source, a language spec, a Stack Overflo