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A tool's creator no longer writes his own prompts

development2026-06-28

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Engineers are leaning into loop engineering so completely that Claude Code's creator no longer writes his own prompts — Claude does — while Gartner expects AI coding costs to outrun the average developer's salary by 2028.

Reported metric: costs > salary by 2028

Reporting date: 2026-06-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A tool's creator no longer writes his own prompts
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-28-the-creator-no-longer-writes-his-own-prompts
Claim: Engineers are leaning into loop engineering so completely that Claude Code's creator no longer writes his own prompts — Claude does — while Gartner expects AI coding costs to outrun the average developer's salary by 2028.
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- Welcome to June 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-28-2026
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