[William_BB]

> I think "absolute crap but still useful to me" is a pretty high value and not worth neglecting

If I extrapolate this example to my professional life, this code now manages millions of dollars, a single mistake can wipe it all out, it has to be maintained by 5 other engineers and understood by 5 other domain experts.

[addaon]

That's a real risk, yes. There's definitely a difference between cases where the code is the artifact being built, and cases where the code is being built to generate an artifact that is independently valuable and assessable. I'm happily in the latter case -- but I definitely share your fear of those who think current LLMs are valuable in the former case.