However I find their claim "I've lead teams of really competent engineers and I can leave them without supervision for months and come back and not feel like throwing away the entire code base." dubious. We all know how much effort it is to keep the quality of even small patches consistent.
Design, architecture, style and refactoring still require significant involvement. Providing only a description and a criteria will likely produce hopelessly messy code, which is also what you get with most corporate dev teams.
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That's indeed a good example.
However I find their claim "I've lead teams of really competent engineers and I can leave them without supervision for months and come back and not feel like throwing away the entire code base." dubious. We all know how much effort it is to keep the quality of even small patches consistent.
Design, architecture, style and refactoring still require significant involvement. Providing only a description and a criteria will likely produce hopelessly messy code, which is also what you get with most corporate dev teams.