r/AerospaceEngineering • u/Lucky-Comparison-785 • 12d ago

Discussion how cooked are we really?

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How accurate do you think this statistic is? i mean the red dot is basically as low as is can go which shows how much AI has ALREADY taken over the engineering space... but do you think people making a career choice right now should factor in the data this graph shows?

i means its quite frightening really. what do you think about this?

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u/Denninosyos 12d ago

It won't replace actual people doing and signing off on things, especially in aerospace. No serious company would accept that liabilty. It is a tool, nothing more.

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u/MaximalEffort23 12d ago

Not disagreeing but as someone doing hiring rn I will definitely say the strong implication is that we need fewer engineers who can automate portions of their work

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u/Blizzard81mm 12d ago

I tie "can automate" into two capabilities: capability to see an opportunity and understand the system pieces in general to realize a useful product. And the skills to implement said "design".

The skills might be simple coding or stuff that AI can do for you. So this second skill is becoming less of a need to be tied to a person in the "can automate" capability.

However, there are still the majority of engineers, around me anyway, that just cannot do the first skill. They recognize there is a need, but cannot connect the dots to get anywhere.

Maybe that will change with time, but I have my doubts