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I think it's likely that what you call slop is more often than not "good enough". One thing a lot of developers aim for in their code, beyond "it does what it is meant to", is something along the lines of elegance (that's my word for it, there may be a better one). With AI generated code there is no time for elegance. It will happily recreate the same function in several different places for no reason. And that reall…
So you have high slop tolerance. This is fine, it just means that there's very little point if you're an IC.
Everyone processes the transition to the post-AI development world differently and on their own timeline. You just seem to be a late bloomer.