> If you are going to compare the bottom of the pile of synthetic code, you should do the same with organic code of back then lest you draw an unfair comparison.

Make it the bottom 70% AI vs. the bottom 10% human if you want to. You're still going to be well within a sea of AI-slop because the volume is that large. The big thing about bad human code is that it tends to still be compact; I can read in some minutes the intention and what does(n't) work.

For each vibe-coded project I gotta do a tiny expedition just to get the basic idea of what's going on. let alone figuring out if things actually work as intended.