The mistake here was the expectation that LLM code would not be junk.

It's the same junk produced by fast-growing startups. It was always here, now there's more of it.

I'm convinced that people will continue to use it. Therefore, I need to be able to deal with it, maybe even leverage it somehow (there should be coding skills that I possess that people in that realm of fast-growing startups do not bother to learn).