Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors on AI slop: half the company is spitting mad
mipsytipsy · x · 2026-10-10
Honeycomb co-founder and CTO Charity Majors published "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob," drawn from her company's summer-long "AI Norms and Values" research. Half the company was furious about AI slop — 20-page padded docs and replies starting with "Claude says…" — while the other half shipped faster with AI and resented colleagues who hadn't adapted. She frames a framework for when AI involvement is additive versus a violation, noting how often workers now describe internal communication as "dehumanizing."
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