AI skeptics mock the economy being reorganized around a "slop machine"
tekbog · x · 2026-09-12
LivAgar mocks the current AI investment wave: entire economies reorganized around a "slop machine" whose biggest productivity contribution is coding like a third-year CS student, justified by an arms-race narrative against rivals who "aren't doing it at all." Reposter tekbog adds "we are so early."
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