Personally I've yet to see any high profile programming person (who's not directly invested into AI) endorse only coding by prompting. Experienced coders that

Personally I've yet to see any high profile programming person (who's not directly invested into AI) endorse only coding by prompting. Experienced coders that I follow, who do use AI tend to focus on tight and fast feedback loops, and precise edits (or maybe exploratory coding) rather than agentic fire-and-forget workflows. Also, an interesting side note, I expected programmers I think of as highly skilled, who I know personally to reject AI from personal pride - that has not been the case. However 2 criticisms I've heard consistently from this crowd (besides the thing I mentioned before) was - AI makes hosting and participating in coding competitions impossible, and denies them of brain-teasers and an ability to hone their skills. - A lot of them are concerned about the ethics of training on large codebases - and consider AI plagiarism as much of an issue as artists do.