Overreliance on Software Packages – The Modern Engineer’s Achilles Heel

Overreliance on Software Packages – The Modern Engineer’s Achilles Heel

While many engineers make the very valid argument that software prevent errors and human fallibility, many other engineers including this writer make the equally valid argument that these tools contribute to creating errors. Are these software’s actually aiding us to become better engineers or are they actually replacing us, at least, in cognitive sense, as engineers?