There is no such thing as

> Indeed, programming is something we are demonstratedly bad at - software fails all the time, everywhere. Hence we need a discipline that wraps our programming tools that minimises failures. That's what software engineering is
No, it's not, that's what the quote says. Perhaps you'd like it to be that, but it isn't.

> The meaning is now the exact opposite of what you originally intended it to prove. i.e. in the context of "nobody can program", it implies that we should all be engineering software rather than "programming".
Err… no. That's just nonsense.