It also doesn't allow leaving an audit trail of plans and decisions (by default, anyway). Most of my mutating prompts look like "Propose a plan for change X and write to file Y" and "Execute steps M-N from file Y".

RE the article: I don't think it's obvious why this process is worth following until you find your time and attention wasted. Conversationally-building is the express train to waste. I'm not sure why you would even be talking to claude if you don't understand what you want to build.