So we need to stop calling everything generated by automation slop. Because there is good automation and bad automation, and they don’t live in the same room.
The issue is that the majority relying on LLMs for their code are lazy with it or just want what they’re creating to work, so naturally some people will associate LLM usage with slop.
I’ve found it quite difficult to balance light or hard usage of LLMs. Either I end up having to correct and adjust the model’s output all the time, which costs me more time than just writing by hand, or I have to let it go loose on the codebase and end up with code that’s hard or even impossible to maintain without an LLM.
So I decided to stop using LLMs to write code for me a long time ago and I find it hard to believe there are many people out there who can get this right (not saying they don’t exist).