Dev's Viral Out-of-Office Reply Blames Mediocre GenAI for Attention Overload
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-27
charlesirl shares his tongue-in-cheek reply for ignoring messages: mediocre generative AI has fundamentally shifted the offense-defense balance in the war for attention, so he's opted out of that channel. Max Spero adds that with ideas and v0 prototypes abundant, shipping something great now demands more intentionality than ever — a snapshot of how practitioners are coping with AI slop overload.
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