Dev pushes back on 'slop' discourse: AI also supercharges debugging and refactoring
jonmarkgo · x · 2026-10-13
Reacting to the one-sided 'slop' discourse, thdxr argues AI doesn't just let you produce more code — it also lets you observe, debug, and refactor more of it. Even if the code is slop, today's tooling makes it manageable, and maintaining manually written code is still 100x easier with AI assistance.
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