New Terms Defined: Mouse-Wiggler and Slopping describe AI workplace archetypes
wavefnx · x · 2026-08-18
The author defined two new terms for the AI industry:
- Mouse-Wiggler: A person whose only job is to wiggle the mouse to keep their LLM running. Usually someone with no idea about code or their actual work.
- Slopping: The act of producing irreversible amounts of entropy.
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