KDE's Cornelius Schumacher Explains Why You Should be Slop-Free
Schumacher is one of the early people of KDE and one of the key people (after all these decades). We have respect for what he says and he stated yesterday that "[i]nvest[ing] in your identity" is a lot more important than the pretence of "productivity" (slopping) because "spend some time building this corpus of what is genuinely you. Don't let an AI generate what you are. Write yourself, publish, think through your thoughts, give presentations. Small things are fine. They will accumulate over time."
Output is not measured by quantity of words (e.g. hired guns in London volleying 85+ KG of legal papers at us to drown out the signal). We see some slopfarms out there. Nobody reads them, especially once Google et al detect and delist them (as they rightly should). Even a million words in blog posts - produced by LLMs or similar - if read by zero people, are zero in value (a million times zero is still zero). One way or another people and companies will similarly realise that measuring "vibe coding" by number of lines of code is misguided; the size is a chore, a liability, a cost. █
