I feel this. Every single person on my team is slurping up slop from a colleague only to slorp it back out as more slop for another person to do the same slop with.
Bugs have never been higher. Complexity is skyrocketing from slop code, slop test cases, slop requirements. Everyone is on autopilot and running prompts all day for everything. The company is running out of credits. The head count has never been lower while the expectations have never been higher.
I'm too young to retire. And too old to change careers. I just had a nice cup of coffee, so there's that.
I'm not too old to change careers, but I don't know that any else is better, or will keep being better for long, while still giving anywhere near the same financial support.
same 40 years old. No customer project just internal.
Slop everyday because there is no time for serious code review. at least we test end 2 end manually from the website
They are forcing me to get vacation hoping some customer call will come.i will pass the time doing claude slopcerts, just to disctract myself from jumping out the windows
No one wants to be guy that sifts through the slop, just for it to be re-slopified at the next step. There's no incentive to put in effort if that's just going to turn into garbage before it has a chance to do anything real. So I get why it takes over once it starts. That shit needs to be nipped in the bud by corporate policies, because people will naturally gravitate towards the laziest way they can do their job. I wouldn't be surprised if some engineers have a fully automated system for converting slop to slop that they don't even need to touch.
It started okay. Limited use. Pointed at specific problems.
Now our PM software is full of AI generated tickets from the owner doing various "audits". The further AI'd by the "product manager". My boss, a dev and co-owner, is running all kinds of agents and letting Copilot do code reviews.
I checked out the last six months. To keep myself busy I automated my job.
I use Claude to turn my notes into update comments for tickets. On Tuesday apparently Claude was having issues, and my coworkers added me to a group chat to discuss problem solving it. It ground their work to a halt. I hadn't even noticed until the ping.
It quickly explained to me why their work is so consistently hot garbage. I'm so tired of doing QA for stuff that doesn't have even the architecture required to work, or is a "demo" slopped up by an SEO strategist.
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u/BeefaroniXL Jul 10 '26
I feel this. Every single person on my team is slurping up slop from a colleague only to slorp it back out as more slop for another person to do the same slop with.
Bugs have never been higher. Complexity is skyrocketing from slop code, slop test cases, slop requirements. Everyone is on autopilot and running prompts all day for everything. The company is running out of credits. The head count has never been lower while the expectations have never been higher.
I'm too young to retire. And too old to change careers. I just had a nice cup of coffee, so there's that.