I suppose you can still do many engineering jobs, but they will just be done poorly. Unless you are running your own business, you always need to be able to ta

I suppose you can still do many engineering jobs, but they will just be done poorly. Unless you are running your own business, you always need to be able to take someone else's high-level understanding of a problem/feature/task and figure out how to implement it. That is true of more than just software development. And if you are running your own business, you need to be able to prioritize problems/features/tasks and figure out how to implement it. I love solving algorithmic problems, but the vast majority of important (measured by willingness for people to pay you to solve them) problems in the world are not algorithmic. It's actually more important to be able to figure out how to make a service scale efficiently, or add an item to a menu to control overlay opacity, than it is to find the only non-duplicate item in a list in O(n) time and O(1) space.