What Vicki Boykis thinks about AI slop

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Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.

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1. 1 Sept 2026

   Our readingAs AI makes it easier to generate code, teams must delete code more aggressively or be overwhelmed by accumulated complexity.

   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.

   ↗Bad code is kudzuvickiboykis.com 3rd of 3 in this piece