Does the industry even need engineers who can code? This is a hyperbolic rhetorical question but consider how much of modern work really is CRUD API gluing, an

Does the industry even need engineers who can code? This is a hyperbolic rhetorical question but consider how much of modern work really is CRUD API gluing, and how much of that work is not rigorous engineering, but tedious implementation as per documentation and wading through hastily-thrown together legacy cruft written during previous crunch time. How much of that work involves novel programming and memorized understanding? Most of it requires study of existing codebases, not given a blank REPL to hash out something new.