AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing
ai and ML
Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is known for saying, "Your margin is my opportunity."
Substitute "irresponsibility" for "margin," and you have a formulation that applies to AI-driven software development.
AI models or coding agents make mistakes, and many of the people using them multiply those errors by asking their AI helper to build software without the knowledge necessary to build actual proper software.
The resulting vibe-coded apps have created a new growth industry – AI slop sanitation. Witness Slopfix, "a team of three senior engineers who refactor vibecoded codebases back to maintainability."
Konstantin Klyagin, the Lisbon, Portugal-based founder of contract software biz Redwerk and QAwerk, a quality assurance consultancy, told The Register that a growing number of clients are asking for help to fix vibe-coded apps.
Klyagin said he's been developing software for the past two decades, and with the...
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