If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.
If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.
If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?
Yeah.
What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?
Thom, exceedingly pure
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