For half my coworkers, their LLM code is better than their code.

That’s depressing. For 80% of my coworkers their LLM code is horrible. Only the seniors seem to use it well and not just spit out garbage

I think that goes back to whether they are programmers vs engineers.

Engineers will focus on professionalism of the end product, even if they used AI to generate most of the product.

And I'm not going by "title", but by mindset. Most of my fellow engineers are not - they are just programmers - as in, they don't care about the non-coding part of the job at all.