AI slop creates an order of magnitude more tech debt and kills the will to clean it up
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-08
Responding to a joke that legacy code was unreadable garbage long before AI, developer unconed rejects the equivalence frame: AI slop produces an order of magnitude more tech debt than old-school debt while simultaneously removing the motivation to clean it up — a doubly damaging combination.
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