Dev fires back at "AI slop" critics: "You're still fetching data with useEffect"
Rasmic · x · 2026-10-12
A pointed rebuttal in the ongoing "AI generates slop" coding debate. Developer Rasmic argues that engineers criticizing AI-written code often have weak fundamentals themselves — if you're still fetching data with raw useEffect instead of TanStack Query, you don't get to complain about slop.
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