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I rewrote the auth flow by hand in the PR because I was drowning in slop, couldn't even follow the original flow. We've applied patches on patches that just made the slop so evident that the LLM itself then backed out at some point saying that it doesn't make sense.
Normally I could spot something that doesn't make sense, but honestly I got exhausted.
The real problem, that imo can play a part in causing cognitive debt, is that reading slop is a chore. You have to fully read the slop, then try to reason very carefully the slop yourself, then you realize it's bullshit and you re-prompt, the cycle continues until you're tired and lose interest.
If I can put my tinfoil hat on for a moment, the fact that providers now prefer a lower reasoning effort it's a clear sign that we're going to prompt more and more, aggravating the issue I've mentioned above while spending even more.
edit: this is mostly subjective, it's my fault and my personal life is already stressful so it plays a part in my behavior towards slop
I didn't say you should use slop code for production. I recommend against it. Have so for a year now. You can use the LLM for detection though. But that means that you have to read and take action based on what rolls out. And that somewhat helps you retain your cognitive strengths, also because you'll quickly learn the limitations of LLMs.
What I mean though is that if you generate slop, you have to read it, and understand it, just like you mention. Without that, it's worthless. Not to the general public, because the general public loves to get rekt in a data leak. The general public loves getting their CHD stolen. The general public loves that people are being kidnapped for as little as 10M sats simply because the general public doesn't have 10M sats. And judging by the number of bitcoin ecosystem apps that I've had to either not install, or fork, or uninstall due to excessive slop, bitcoiners are no different: no one gives a fuck. Buidl broken shit.
You're right that manually coding stuff, given that you have the skills to actually produce code, like yourself, works much better. It doesn't mean you have to be a Luddite though; it just means you have to keep using your brain.
This occurs only if you don't read the slop.