Just wait to you hear what some traditional capital “E” engineers (meaning licensed) think about programmers usurping the title “engineer”.

It’s been a joke for decades and decades that “engineer” is used to church up any job, including “domestic engineering” (housekeeping/homemaking).

Sanitation engineer and custodial engineer are older than I am, as well.

I mean, building applications that are maintainable, will fail gracefully, and keeps costs low, has all the same needs as any classic engineering discipline. You could spend just as much time designing a well thought out CLI as it could take to design a bridge or a sewer system.

Whether people do, or not, is a different question.