> It is a golden era for buckets and buckets of slop, and a dark age for gems of quality.

I mean, this has been the trend for decades really, before LLMs were a thing. The incentive is skewed toward quantity rather than quality. The new tools just add more fuel to the fire.

Code quality is also really lacking in much of the industry. The truth is, these LLM models, as limited as they are, program at a level above that of the median junior programmer.