Slop Hype Makes Our Core Technology Less Reliable and Far Less Resilient (We Pay for the Catastrophe That Follows)
Only slop-free projects can be trusted
Slop pushers love to cheat. They would even fake "demand" for their own slop. So they run a bunch of bots to issue requests out of a vacuum or trick users into passively "invoking" a bunch of plagiarism (or BS) generators. It's a bit like buybacks.
Yesterday David Gerard (Pivot to AI) wrote about slop in technical circles turning out to be costly, hardly a money saver. "Amazon Web Services is the biggest cloud provider," he wrote, "Large chunks of the internet run on AWS. You’ll pay and pay. But it basically works. Amazon’s at work on fixing that. The AI push across Amazon has reached AWS. The site reliability engineers who keep Amazon Web Services running are being forced to use AI bot coding when the details are important — and expensive. When the bot goes wrong, the employees get the blame!"
Think about so-called 'vibe' so-called 'coding', as it's based on the same braindead mindset of obfuscation or "toss something at it, worry about it much later"...
"Amazon released a post-mortem internally," Gerard wrote, "which the FT got wind of. FT spoke to multiple people at Amazon who said this was the second vibe-outage in recent months. The previous outage used Amazon’s old Q vibe coder, not the new Kiro vibe coder."
Remember what happened to Clownflare last night. Last time it happened they blamed the latest crappy code from Rust People, who generally favour Microsoft GitHub, a hub of slop. █