Fair, but the real question is what this person's manager thinks, as that tends to carry the day. And at the moment, there is an enormous gulf between what the managerial class believes LLMs can do and what people in the trenches know LLMs actually can and cannot do--not as a matter of current frontier capabilities, I might add, but more ontologically.
If you are constantly thinking claudes approach is the best then perhaps you were not that good of an engineer to start with.