Deslop your codebase: banned-words lint plus CI, used since 2025 to tame o3's odd spaces
andersonbcdefg · x · 2026-08-28
A viral tip claims the best way to "deslop" your codebase—removing AI-flavored writing—is to add a banned-words lint and wire it into CI. A commenter adds history: real heads introduced this back in spring 2025 to stop OpenAI's o3 from filling everything with nonstandard space characters.
The core approach: maintain a banned words/characters list in your linter, enforce it in CI, and model-generated code gets automatically blocked before merge—keeping the codebase clean.
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