What is an Engineer?

As I write this, it s the start of 2026 and many people are in a crisis about what their job is. If AI writes all the code, am I still an engineer? Will the world still need software engineers? What really is an engineer, anyway? Really, all of this comes down to that last question: what really is an engineer, anyway? Well, I have an answer for that that I think will help bring clarity to a lot of…