AI has changed what's worth building. Problems that were never worth the time are now solvable. Things can be built faster, in greater number, and to a higher standard than before. That's the opportunity, and it's real.
But it puts the engineering question front and centre, not behind us. Software still has to perform under load, stay secure when it matters, and remain maintainable years from now, long after the people who built it have moved on. AI cacclerates the process. What's left is the judgment that was always the hard part.
So the bar hasn't held. It's gone up. What we build is more ambitious, and the standard it's measured against is higher. It's our team that continously clears that bar.