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big push to try to push "responsible" AI coding as "not *slop*"
just hit another one
> "oh no they're very anti-slop here's their CONTRIBUTING.md"
> list of ways to use the slop bot in their project
come off it with this bullshit, it fools nobody and makes you look like a smarmy collaborator
@davidgerard this is where a lot of people in tech are right now and the cognitive dissonance is incredible
“oh I’d never do slop because I” type lgtm in all the PRs, type the code myself on the chatbot’s instructions, only use it for tests, only use it for docs, blah blah blah
and meanwhile the project is broken in ridiculous ways and they haven’t noticed because the slopbot says it’s fine and they’ve cognitively offloaded all validation to the LLM. I haven’t met anyone who uses the slopbot and doesn’t cognitively offload to it; all of them do the glass-eyed “here’s what claude said” more and more til that’s the only thing making decisions and driving conversations in the project.
@davidgerard like no, you aren’t carefully reading thousands and thousands of lines of LLM output to make sure they’re not slop.
yes, the parts of the codebase you’re offloading to the LLM are important, and allowing any part of your project to be slop makes the whole thing slop because of how LLMs work in practice.
no, I don’t particularly want “your buddy claude” (all of these guys use this exact non-joke for some reason) to be part of the discourse. I don’t think lazily consulting the slopbot adds anything positive. I keep watching negative outcomes happen unacknowledged when you consult it. the codebase is now a disjoint mass of a hundred broken abstractions and non-abstractions because that’s what “your buddy claude” recommends.
@davidgerard ohno, this made me look into a slop project similar to my non-slop floppy recovery software and the last commit was "hey, claude you must guarantee you don't make the code worse when refactoring"
I am just..
How can you seriously use this as a professional.
So what is that markdown file supposed to do?
@davidgerard I recently saw a project with a policy that stated "authors using AI are responsible for verifying their code contributions do not violate copyright."
Literally how?
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