I am with you here but don't get overly pessimistic: devising hooks and stopgaps and flows and constantly tuning what to watch out for does not only improve the quality of the LLM-output code. It hones and refines your own abilities.

CC has made some pretty dumb stuff in my projects but I don't resent those occurrences. They taught me (more accurately: reminded me, because I already knew but was not applying that knowledge too often) very valuable lessons on code quality -- that's still a dark area to this day and every ray of light on it is valuable for the future programming.

To me programming with LLMs made me a better programmer. But yes, I don't just rubber-stamp PRs.

It also finally allowed me to be less of a code monkey and more of an architect and a backend lead than before. Which I was really missing.