I think they're describing an approach to decision-making in the context of agents.
Engineers encountering LLMs for the first time think the problems they encounter are entirely novel, but really we are rehashing old lessons which Fred Brooks wrote about half a century ago, but in new jargon.
The essential difficulty of specifying what you actually want remains the same and nothing I've seen from LLMs will change that.
You are working, and you are building things, to create value.
What are the tools you use to move about your environment and create your product, your value? Your knowledge, your training, your time.
If you examine the first principles of whatever it is you're doing, you should realize: you must keep your toolbox open and ready to swap new tools in and out in order to keep up with the time and manage yourself effectively.
AI is a tool, learn to use it as a tool and stop 'fighting the times' so much. All of your criticisms are valid, and you are correct: but everyone still wants to save time, and so you must keep up.