dhh: 'Slop' is a comfort blanket for programmers stuck in AI denial
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-29
dhh (Ruby on Rails creator) argues the word 'slop' has become a comfort blanket for a cohort of programmers stuck between anger and bargaining on their way to acceptance of AI coding. There may be kicking and screaming, he says, but eventually they have to let the blanket go and update their priors.
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