Devs push back on AI slop panic: codebases have always contained human-made slop
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-11
A discussion on "AI slop in codebases" argues the problem isn't new. @poteto notes code has always contained slop: software engineering is an evolving, almost organic discipline where code rarely needs perfection outside mission-critical domains like embedded systems. Many experienced developers were skeptical in 2024 that agents could write production code without ruining codebases, but human-written slop was already ubiquitous. @compuficial adds that copy-pasting from Stack Overflow and tweaking it was itself an early form of slop. Takeaway: tolerance for imperfect code predates AI-generated code.
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