I've seen too much myself...I am more in the loop when not using auto throttles.
Captain (me) on 737 climbing out of BWI with new copilot,I advise I am turning off the auto throttles and then call for climb power and start looking for called traffic as we continue the climb.
I look down a few seconds later and ask the copilot if he set climb power...he said the auto throttles did that.
I told him that I had disconnected the auto throttles and advised him of such shortly after takeoff.
he hadn't even looked down at the gauges to make sure that the engines were performing properly.
I felt badly too, but I had called for something and then got distracted looking for traffic...but the NFP is supposed to actually look at things like engine gauges!
Quite simply, I don't see the need for auto throttles. How amazingly hard is it to move throttles with your hand?