Re:No AI Slop: A Manifesto
by bigstrat2003 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:26PM
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> However, if on balance it is more effective when measured by business outcomes...
That's a very big "if". So far, it appears that AI slop leads to worse business outcomes.
Re:No AI Slop: A Manifesto
by CatMustard on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:09PM
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I very much want this to be true, but what is the evidence?
Re:No AI Slop: A Manifesto
by bigstrat2003 on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:54PM
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Every software product proudly labeled as "we used AI to make this" sucks. For example, people have repeatedly pointed out how bad Claude Code is, precisely because it's just AI slop. Microsoft going down yesterday is almost certainly also due to slop. And so on.
Using Claude code as an example is shocking.
It's arguably the most successful piece of software in the past decade.
It took a software company from a 10 billion company to a 1.5 trillion company in about one year.
This is the counter example to you. With AI, a small team can make a trillion dollar business in the order of days.
Hard to care about developers crying about the usability of their Dev tools when their businesses are 100Xing and 1000Xing per year on the back of AI code
And you have no idea if the Microsoft outage was caused by AI. You are just lazily attributing an issue to AI because it's convenient for your argument which is a very ignorant tactic
From my own personal experience, which may not reflect the broader industry although I suspect it does, the ones who embrace slopping with the least regard for their peers are also the ones perceived as the most effective by their employers. Those who take a principled stance get the worst of both worlds. They cannot combat the deluge of slop with their own clanker, and they lose the influence with their company leadership that would provide sponsorship to change how AI is being used. This creates competitive pressure to follow suit, and from there it is a race to the bottom.