No AI Slop Manifesto: Devs Push Back on AI-Generated Slop With Agile-Style Values
smlpth · x · 2026-11-14
Speakers and attendees of AIE Code Summit 2026 published a 'No AI Slop' manifesto, echoing the 2001 Agile Manifesto for the AI era.
Core values: outcomes over output, understanding over speed, our own thinking over a model's first draft, improving the system over patching the output.
Key claims:
- A swarm of agents can produce more work in a day than a person can review in a lifetime
- Slop is when production effort is less than what the consumer spends understanding it
- Using AI isn't slop; passing AI output along without taking responsibility for quality is
- Slop is asymmetric: producing a thousand-line PR is approaching zero cost, while reviewing it stays constant
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