https://nadathurx.com/tags/software-engineering/Recent content in Software Engineering on NadathurXHugoen-us©NadathurX.com, 2024. Unauthorized use of this material without permission is strictly prohibited.Sun, 24 May 2026 01:18:00 +0530https://nadathurx.com/guardrails-against-ai-slop/Sat, 23 May 2026 21:12:00 +0530https://nadathurx.com/guardrails-against-ai-slop/<h2 id="slop-was-already-here">Slop was already here</h2> <p>In the <a href="https://nadathurx.com/ai-slop-what-about-human-slop/">previous article</a>, 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.</p>https://nadathurx.com/ai-slop-what-about-human-slop/Wed, 20 May 2026 14:05:00 +0530https://nadathurx.com/ai-slop-what-about-human-slop/<h2 id="the-ai-slop-panic">The AI slop panic</h2> <p>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: &ldquo;AI slop&rdquo;, 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.</p>