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Guardrails Against AI and Human Slop

Sat, 23 May 2026 21:12:00 +0530

Slop was already here

In the previous article, I argued that sloppy code is not new. Humans were already quite talented at writing it, and we are even more creative when explaining it away.

AI slop? What about human slop?

Wed, 20 May 2026 14:05:00 +0530

The AI slop panic

You cannot talk to developers these days without the conversation somehow becoming about AI. Talk to any curious engineer and the conversation almost always takes the same turn: “AI slop”, how AI is still bad at writing code, how our jobs are perfectly safe because reading AI-generated code during a production outage will be a nightmare, and so on.

Throw That Shit Away

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0800

The Spark

Recently, I was listening to Boris Cherny on Lenny’s Podcast — the head of Claude Code at Anthropic. Among many things discussed, one statement caught my attention: he talked about how cheap it’s become to throw away code without any emotional attachment.

Don't Be an Ostrich

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0800

The Conversation That Started It All

Walking back to the office today, I found myself thinking about a conversation with a Google teammate over 10 years ago. We were discussing Ruby’s guiding principle — making programming languages easier for humans.