AI slop
Low-quality generated content at volume, and what it does to the places it lands in.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsI think every time AI can do something equally good or better than humans it stops being valuable or special
- 1 day earlier
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Molly Graham quoted
Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild
Our readingPart of the AI slop problem is probably people handing off accountability for the work they send.
Their wordsAnd I think part of what's going on with all the slop in the world is people have like shipped accountability.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 9th of 20 in this recording
- 1 day earlier
- GR
Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Their wordsWe run a real risk that *reading* gets entirely discounted, because of the exhaustion of getting low-quality and unverified AI prose being thrown at you all the time.
- 1 day earlier
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsMicrosoft managed to make “Copilot” mean “AI slop” thanks shipping completely broken and forced Copilot features for years, so ppl hate it.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsSlop is just a feature suggestion wrapped in code that nobody has any emotional attachment to. It's an executable idea.
- 1 day earlier
- PS
Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Our readingModern AI models tend to write tests for every tiny change, even when those tests aren't useful.
Their wordsModern models just love writing tests for every tiny change, even if they aren't useful.
- 4 days earlier
- TL
Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsAccept code on merit and ensure that a person takes accountability for it. Doesn’t matter if it was typed, chiseled, generated, or bit-flipped via magnetized needle on a chip. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s slop, it’s slop.
- 4 days earlier
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Zach Holman quoted
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee
Their wordsAI has made it so insanely easy to grab a few factoids from your bio in an effort to "tailor" their approach to you.
↗As Someone Who Has Written This Blog Post,zachholman.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
- TL
Tobias Lütke quoted
Their wordsNow um of of of lazy work is not lack of output. It's actually over output.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 6th of 26 in this recording
- 5 days earlier
- KD
Katie Dill quoted
Head of Design at Stripe
Their wordsAI makes things feel finished really really fast all too often prematurely.
↗How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al | Katie Dill (Stripe) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 2nd of 12 in this recording
- 9 days earlier
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsWriting is thinking, and we are interested in your own thoughts and observations, not a sharp, one-sentence observation turned into three paragraphs of blob text by an LLM.
↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Vicki Boykis quoted
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems
Their wordsBut in this new era, we must delete code even harder, because if we don't constantly remove complexity, we are going to drown in generated kudzu slop that overtakes codebases.
- 1 day earlier
- EM
Ethan Mollick quoted
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI
Their wordsAIs don’t just repeat the same sentence patterns but also the same themes (memory is a favorite), names (Elara Voss, Marcus Chen), and underlying ideas.
- 4 days earlier
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsDon't expect a response to an AI-written email, or a templated email. I get it, you think it's a numbers game: send a tweaked email out to 100 podcasts, and hope that at least one replies. In reality, by playing the same game as everyone else does, you are assisting to the noise, and end up drowning yourself in it as well.
- 4 days earlier
- FC
François Chollet quoted
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark
Their wordsAn increasing fraction of social media consists of slop influencers using AI to make posts and bots replying to them. An echo of an echo of an echo
- 4 days earlier
- ML
Michael Lopp quoted
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape
Their wordsThe content for which you want this the most would be the responsibility of humans who are the least motivated to use such a system.
- 6 days earlier
- MH
Mitchell Hashimoto quoted
Creator of Ghostty and co-founder of Superlogical
Their wordsI'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.
- 1 day earlier
- CM
Charity Majors quoted
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb
Their wordsHere's a baseline. Uh you cannot send anyone something you haven't read. And in fact, if it would take them longer to read it than it took you to make it, it's probably slop.
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 14th of 26 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
- PW
Peter Woit quoted
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics…
Their wordsin an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.
↗Requiem for a Field?math.columbia.edu 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 11 days earlier
- PW
Peter Woit quoted
Our readingAI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.
Their wordsThe result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.
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Jason Yuan quoted
Designer and founder of Hivemind
Their wordsThe cost of creating coherent work has gone up though because now it is so so fast and easy to make incoherent.
↗Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"youtube.com 15th of 18 in this recording
- 6 days earlier
- AM
Adam Mosseri quoted
Head of Instagram since 2018
Their wordsbut I think people are going to really seek out other points of view because Instagram was never just about the content. It was always about to a certain degree the person behind the content, the point of view, the reason they're sharing it, their perspective. And I think that's going to become more important, not less.
↗The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com 15th of 20 in this recording
- 9 days earlier
- MT
Meng To quoted
Designer and founder of Design+Code
Their wordsA skill is is basically a prompt, sometimes a large prompt. You can think about what is the best like what is the best practice. It's more like a style guide. What is the best practice for taste, which font to use, you know, how do you guide AI to not create AI slop. So, the skill would be great for that.
↗Meng To - Codex superpowers for designersyoutube.com 4th of 18 in this recording
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Meng To quoted
Their wordsThe thing is that if you always chase the trends, you will become AI slop very soon. So, my suggestion to you is always be a step ahead. It's like playing chess. You have to be always a step ahead of what is the baseline.
↗Meng To - Codex superpowers for designersyoutube.com 5th of 18 in this recording
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Meng To quoted
Their wordswhen you have a starting point, your AI will stop making AI slop because your starting point is you
↗Meng To - Codex superpowers for designersyoutube.com 7th of 18 in this recording
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Grant Sanderson quoted
Mathematics explainer, creator of the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown
Their wordsIt becomes insufferable like as a mathematician because you you would basically be like I'm every single time I see one of these I kind of don't know if it's worth my time even if 99 out of 100 of them are right.
↗Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?youtube.com 14th of 23 in this recording
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- KC
Kyle Chayka quoted
Staff writer at The New Yorker
Their wordsIf the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.
↗The generic style of AI web designkylechayka.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- KC
Kyle Chayka quoted
Their wordsthis kind of instantly ubiquitous homogeneity is going to happen across every field of human endeavor in the era of AI, until AI gets so powerful that it actually becomes original (doubtful) or until we shut it down.
↗The generic style of AI web designkylechayka.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 days earlier
- JJ
Justin Jackson quoted
Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses
Their wordsI don't think mass-produced AI-generated shows are a big threat to podcasting, mostly because I don't think consumers like them.
↗Thoughts from the 2026 London Podcast Showjustinjackson.ca 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
- JS
Jasmine Sun quoted
Writer and former Substack product manager
Their wordsHumans will not win by trying to outrun the AIs. They are more powerful slop cannons than you are.