AI-Generated Code Is Piling Up 'Slop Debt' Nobody Understands
arpit_bhayani · x · 2026-08-21
Arpit Bhayani coins slop debt: when most of a codebase is LLM-generated, reviewed by nobody who understands it, and merged because tests pass. It looks like code and works for now, but it was never designed—only predicted, one plausible token at a time. He wrote about how it differs from tech debt and compounds exponentially.
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