The 100m dash record is about an objective mesaureble property of the device, speed in this example. If we were talking, say, about inference speed, then yes, of course it's Claude who generated X tokens in Y seconds, not you.

Isn't a better analogy to ask if you drove a car completely on autopilot to some destination, then was it you who drove there or the car?

Also, for the record, I also don't like the AI-written publications. My concern is the consistency in using the terms. This is also related to the idea to not to antromorphize AI.