Mid-level managers flooding tech companies with LLM slop, actively slowing down engineers
eigenhector · x · 2026-10-10
A viral quote-post claims that huge chunks of middle management at tech companies are now emitting LLM slop at rates that actively slow software teams' timelines, with the poster often hired to clean up the mess afterward. Original author @eigenhector endorses it. A counterintuitive look at internal AI adoption: top-down LLM usage can create friction instead of efficiency.
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