Yes, because those would describe, respectively, faith healing, spending money whenever you happen to have bills in your pocket, and levitation through Transcendental Meditation, rather than what we currently call "medicine", "accounting", and "flight schools".
"Software engineering" as currently practiced, and as promoted by the SWEBOK, is an attempt to use management practices to compensate for lacking the requisite technical knowledge to write working software. Analogs in other fields include the Great Leap Forward in agriculture and steelmaking, the Roman Inquisition in astronomy, dowsing in petroleum exploration, Project Huemul in nuclear energy, and in some cases your example of faith healing in medicine.
I really don't think he means "cannot" in the sense of "presently don't know how," but more categorically--along the lines of chiropractic being the profession for those who cannot cure the way an MD can. I think it's an indictment of hackery.
Is that supposed to be a negative? Isn't that the point of any profession? Like are any of these analogs negative?:
Medicine has accepted as its charter "How to cure disease if you cannot."
Accounting has accepted as its charter "How to track money if you cannot."
Flight schools has accepted as its charter "How to fly if you cannot."