@datarama I worked with two guys whose LLM-generated code I could not distinguish from the code they wrote before LLMs. They were top-notch programmers in my opinion.

Funnily enough, I worked with two guys that produced aberrations with LLMs. Unfortunately, I couldn't examine their earlier work.

For me the defining characteristic of slop is that it's anti-minimalistic. Either because the human thinks it's cheap or because the LLM defaults to producing in that style.