In other words, the old adage still applies: there is no free lunch.

More seriously, yes it makes sense that LLMs are not going to be able to take humans entirely out of the loop. Think about what it would mean if that were the case: if people, on the basis of a few simple prompts could let the agents loose and create sophisticated systems without any further input, the there would be nothing to differentiate those systems, and thus they would lose their meaning and value.

If prompting is indeed the new level of abstraction we are working at, then what value is added by asking Claude: make me a note-taking app? A million other people could also issue this same low-effort prompt; thus what is the value added here by the prompter?