It's a mindset shift from producing code to producing a product. You may look at the code and see slop but look at the product and see value.

This should be extremely intuitive. We know this already. There has always been a divergence between product value and code quality. How many codebases that are widely used are kind of a mess inside? Pretty much all of them to some degree. This is a basic reality of software engineering. Conversely a useless product could have the cleanest code in the world.

Some slop accusations are fair. Others are people essentially expressing that they dont like shifting to a product mindset.

I dont have your whole pipeline but I recently took a step back and thought about how amazing the AI is. I recently gave Fable a nice, simple open source TUI app with some Claude Design artifacts for a UI/UX facelift + some new complex feature requests and it just one shots the entire thing in 20 minutes. It works great and looks amazing. It's significantly better in terms of UX and functionality than the original. I did this on the side with about 15 minutes of active attention while I was working.