In your opinion, a codebase has become slop when...
@datarama Oh goodness, we had plenty of slop before LLMs, all you have to do is ignore best practices and style guidelines. Things are much better now because we can generate the worst possible code at a rate of dozens of tokens per second instead of requiring the weeks and weeks it used to. :P
*sigh*
But honestly once you get to a certain level of experience, you *can't* create slop; it hurts too much inside. It requires a machine or a total noob to create true slop. :)