> I feel that LLMs and their overtly verbose output trick less knowledgeable programmers of the quality of their output. When Claude spits out refactored code with tons of comments, documenting each method and variable, and tests for everything as well, it looks impressive, at a first glance. But if you dig deeper, it's sometimes just complete bullshit.

This is pretty spot on. But it's important to note that the resulting code, is still often significantly better than what those developers used to produce. Especially under tight deadlines and pressure to complete CRUD like interfaces. We simply can't afford spending a whole day tweaking a sortable table on the web anymore.

I agree that it produces code that is better than many of my colleagues. I have spent the last 14 years honing my ability to build code in a scalable way that works for basically any domain. I still produce better output than the LLM. But the incentive to encourage my colleagues to reach that kind of level is just gone, and that's what frustrates me. As humans, we could have been so much more efficient, but instead LLMs came in and are steering us towards the median of slop code. Slop by my standards anyways.