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.
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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