I think that plenty of 'nerds' would very much disagree about that. Steering agents effectively is something that can take massive amounts of creativity and talent and be quite helpful wrt. the final result. There's no real analogue of this in traditional programming.

Sure there's an analogue.

It's being the tech lead of a team of junior to mid level developers. You design roughly what the solution should look like, split it into reasonable sized tasks so they don't go off the deep end, advise them on some of the details, then assign them the tasks and let them get on with it, keeping an eye on what they're doing, reviewing their output, and course correcting them when they go wrong.

Just like with a team of humans, you have to use your judgement as to how much supervision they need individually and how large a task you can give them without them going off the rails.

Sure there is, offshoring, now the chat window is with my computer instead on the other side of the planet.

Not everyone wants to be a team lead not doing coding any longer.

How so?

The models get better and better at understanding the intent of a prompt and doing more useful work with less intervention.

You keep telling yourself that.