[D] Are Data Engineers Dying Out?

I've been with Google for just over 2 years now, and I've seen that Google seems to consider Data Engineers equally skilled as software engineers. Algorithms and data structures, systems design, memory management, designing distributed systems, etc. Other companies like Meta/Amazon seem to believe that data engineering involves using no-code/low-code tools to build data pipelines.

Do you think Data Engineering is going to align closer to software engineering, or closer to specialized BIEs? Will Analytics Engineer become more popular?

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