[tjr]

It appears to me that the people who consistently get the best results from LLM coding tools are prompting fairly close to the code. Maybe not quite at the level of writing pseudocode, but close enough that they really still need to understand software development.

Which seems to not quite gel with the notion of, you don't need programmers, you don't need to know how to program, etc.

I feel pretty confident that, in fact, you don't need to. You probably can get good results without having a clue what you're doing, if you prompt well enough, or prompt long enough, or prompt repeatedly until it works. But I think you will more reliably, maybe even more quickly, get good results if you do know what you're doing, and if you stay reasonably engaged with the development, even if not literally writing the code yourself.