The minimal human supervision for prompts seems like a pretty silly take. LLMs are still pretty bad at creating good prompts for LLMs. Give it a benchmark and some feedback and it can brute force it, but far less effectively. And I thought the point of using LLMs for development was increased efficiency.
My independent judgement and experience is along your lines, but I’m trying to also take Anthropic seriously:
> “I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops.”
> “Can confirm Claude Code is 100% written by Claude Code”
Both from head of Claude Code. Taken either literally or seriously they point to Anthropic shipping code with limited human authorship.