> For coding, you can use AI to write your code. For software engineering, you can't.

You can 100% use AI for software engineering. Just not by itself, you need to currently be quite engaged in the process to check it and redirect it.

But AI lowers the barrier to writing code and thus it brings people will less rigour to the field and they can do a lot of damage. But it isn't significantly different than programming languages made coding more accessible than assembly language - and I am sure that this also allowed more people to cause damage.

You can use any tools you want, but you have to be rigorous about it no matter the tool.