at some point ai-generated code is no longer slop

That point is when you have a human expert validate that the ai-generated code is correct. If the community as a whole has given up on doing that, it does not retroactively make all LLM-generated code not-slop, it just means slop is the norm.

And obviously from the reception you’ve gotten, even that has yet to occur.

Or for a more purpose built wrapper (for the same use cases as postman): https://hurl.dev/