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It all comes back to the same thing. Theoretically, someone who knows code and programming could get a lot of use out of the tool, because they would know how to point it in the right direction, what pitfalls to avoid, what bad patterns to correct, etc - but if you have that level of knowledge you might as well just write the code yourself because it is HIGHLY DEBATABLE whether the LLM is actually saving you time compared to how much time you have to spend fixing its output.
Same with generated images. Theoretically an artist could use that as part of their process, but of you're skilled at digital art does generating a thousand variations on a prompt really save you time versus just doing it yourself? With writing, if you actually care about the quality of your work, proofreading and editing an LLM output (not to mention all of the setup time to get a reasonable draft from an LLM in the first place) costs at least as much time as doing the writing personally.
Slop is the perfect name for this stuff. It is only acceptable to those who don't care about quality.