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.

Exactly! It's a bit of a tragedy.

But then again, LLMs do offer benefits that are impossible not to want to harness.