If you replace a junior with #LLM and make the senior review output, the reviewer is now scanning for rare but catastrophic errors scattered across a much larger output surface due to LLM "productivity."

That's a cognitively brutal task.

Humans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. Aviation, nuclear, radiology all have extensive literature on exactly this failure mode.

I propose any productivity gains will be consumed by false negative review failures.

Sorry for doomerposting... But I think AI slop has killed whatever tiny shreds of passion for the homelab space that I had left. Every other post on r/selfhosted now starts with "I built..." which basically translates to "Claude code built". 50% of those "self-built" projects are for personal use and niche use cases (fine by me), but the other half has the audacity to ask for contributors, donations, testers and offer "business pricing" for their slop. I've now seen at least two self hostable projects go up in flames because of the slop, and many more will probably follow.

Don't get me wrong, I still self host most of my services (because fuck big tech) but because the space is now inundated by LLM-generated garbage, I've lost all interest in enganing with it online.