Summary: The EPO became a very unprofessional workplace, where the head of operations repeatedly uses the F word and promotes people for complicity (e.g. propelling European software patents and violating the European Patent Convention (EPC))
Fact #1: over time slop gets worse (training set is like some blurry JPEG). Fact #2: People's "smell" for slop improves over time, as they 'train' on slop and can detect it based on prior encounters. Put 1 and 2 together.
