Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
by twelvedogs on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:28PM
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the microslop thing is largely just a backlash at ms jamming ai into every possible crevice of every program and service they offer with no real plan or goals other than "do more ai"
I try to assume people who are trashing AI are just working in systems like that, rather than being bad at using AI, or worse, shit-talking the tech without really trying to get value out of it because they're ethically opposed to it.
A lot of strongly anti-AI people are really angry human beings (I suppose that holds for vehemently anti-<anything> people), which doesn't really help the case, it just comes off as old man shaking fist at clouds, except too young. The whole "microslop" thing came off as classless and bitter.