No AI Slop manifesto: AIE Code Summit attendees publish five values for AI-era software
ShahabBakht · x · 2026-11-14
Speakers and attendees of AIE Code Summit 2026 published the "No AI Slop" manifesto, consciously echoing the 2001 Agile Manifesto. Its five values: outcomes over output, understanding over speed, our own thinking over a model's first draft, better work over easier work, and improving the system over patching the output.
Core arguments: a swarm of agents can produce more in a day than a person can review in a lifetime; slop is when you put less effort into producing something than the consumer spends understanding it; using AI isn't slop in itself—passing AI output along without taking responsibility for quality is. The manifesto also highlights slop's asymmetry: producing a thousand-line PR is approaching zero cost while review cost stays constant.
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