It’s not corporate slop, its risk avoidance. Now leaders are so enchanted with productivity they are willing to lower the risk avoidance bar. “Move fast and break things” is meta now. It was before too, but AI is giving it a fresh breath.

Yeah, and it could have been (and in many place has been) like this all the time, LLMs or not. That was my point. The change is not due to the (albeit very real) help given by LLMs, it's due to a change of attitude in management. Magically this person who used to write code once every two weeks now has time to fully focus on coding, again.