I don't know, if you actually design in some way and deliver the solution for the structure of the bridge, aren't you THE structural engineer for that project ?

Credentials don't define capability, execution does.

> Credentials don't define capability, execution does.

All the same, if my city starts to hire un-credentialed "engineers" to vibe-design bridges, I'm not going to drive on them

again, it doesn’t make me a structural engineer—it’s the outcome of hiring someone else to do it. it really isn’t complicated.

i’m not suddenly somehow a structural engineer. even worse, i would have no way to know when its full of dangerous hallucinations.

This argument runs squarely into the problems of whether credentials or outcomes are what's important, and whether the LLM is considered a tool or the one actually responsible doing the work.

it’s not that deep.

*if* it were a structurally sound bridge, it means i outsourced it. it’s that simple. it doesn’t magically make me a structural engineer, it means it was designed elsewhere.

if i hire someone to paint a picture it doesn’t magically somehow make me an artist.