A decade into the tech field, it's wild how much has shifted. The engineering work that used to keep teams busy? A significant chunk—we're talking 70-80% of routine tasks—is now within reach of advanced AI models like Claude. The pace of displacement is genuinely jarring when you look back at what consumed our time even just a few years ago. Whether it's code generation, debugging, documentation, or problem-solving frameworks, AI's already eating into traditional engineer workflows. The industry's facing a real reckoning about what skills actually matter now.