Software and bridges are entirely different.

If I need a bridge, and there's a perfectly beautiful bridge one town over that spans the same distance - that's useless to me. Because I need my own bridge. Bridges are partly a design problem but mainly a build problem.

In software, if I find a library that does exactly what I need, then my task is done. I just use that library. Software is purely a design problem.

With agentic coding, we're about to enter a new phase of plenty. If everyone is now a 10x developer then there's going to be more software written in the next few years than in the last few decades.

That massive flurry of creativity will move the industry even further from the calm, rational, constrained world of engineering disciplines.