If you've ever had to work alongside someone who has, or whose job it is to obtain, all the money... you will find that time to market is very often the ONLY criterion that matters. Turning the crank to churn out some AI slop is well worth it if it means having something to go live with tomorrow as opposed to a month from now.
LevelsIO's flight simulator sucked. But his payoff-to-effort ratio is so absurdly high, as a business type you have to be brain-dead to leave money on the table by refusing to try replicating his success.
It feels like LLMs are doing to coding what the internet/attention economy did to journalism.
Yeah, future math professors explaining the Prisoners' Dilemma are going to use clickbait journalism and AI slop as examples instead of today's canonical ones, like steroid use among athletes.