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.