I have a weekly Python tip email I sent years ago with the subject line "write sloppy code".

It wasn't talking about AI-generated slop.

It was about not being afraid to throw together some sloppy code to help solve a problem.

Whether LLM-generated or not, the haphazard-looking code you piece together to analyze stats about the audiobooks you've read doesn't need to be production quality.

But that code you're deploying to an important production environment DOES need to be production quality.