Agreed that a large volume of code before AI was slop. But I don’t think that’s the main point.

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Agreed that a large volume of code before AI was slop. But I don't think that's the main point.

The main problem is that before AI, slop was being generated at human scale and it could be contained/controlled through management.

Now, AI causes several problems:

1- An AI coding agent can generate more slop in a day than a human would in their entire lifetime

2- A lot of people are entering software development jobs who have near-zero knowledge of code, and they are shipping AI-generated code to production. So now we have more people generating slop at the scale of AI

3- There is immense pressure on software companies to ship more code to avoid falling behind, so they don't have time to develop the mechanisms to control the quality of AI-generated code (including with the help of AI code review tools)

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