The author assumes that human understanding and modeling is essential. However, this no longer appears to be the expressed preference of the industry.

AI advocates nowadays are calling for abolishing human code review. So code moves from read-often-write-rarely to read-once-write-once to read-never-write-often. The assumption is that we can rely on the agents to decipher the code if needed.

My feeling is that software "engineering" in the future will be basically a cargo cult or the Adeptus Mechanicus from Warhammer 40k: all detailed technical knowledge comes from the gods, humans only manage the rituals around technology.