Agree with this. Like the author, I've been keeping ajour with web development for multiple decades now. If you have deep software knowledge pre-LLM, you are equipped with the intuition and knowledge to judge the output. You can tell the difference between good and bad, if it looks and works the way you want, and you can ask the relevant questions to push the solution to the actual thing that you envisioned in your mind.
Without prior software dev experience people may take what the LLM gives them at face value, and that's where the slop comes from imho.
Without prior software dev experience people may take what the LLM gives them at face value, and that's where the slop comes from imho.