Have you seen the quality of the code in the kernel? I am no c fan but the bar and standards are incredibly high.
The kernel is certainly LLM assisted but I don’t think any honest dev can look at say the recent LLM assisted code and call it slop. If anything the quality of Linux code has gotten higher over the past decade.
I am not a fan of vibe coded slop and I don’t think it’s fair to call the kernel slop.