The Slop Should Not Be Tolerated
TL;DR: Coding agents decide they're done by asking a model whether they're done. That's not a quality check, that's a vibe. Here's what happens when you make the exit condition a command and why the agent has to be locked out of changing it.
A harness is easy; the rest is not
No, a markdown won't fix it
Merriam-Webster crowned "slop" as its ‘2025 Word of the Year’, which captures the collective exhaustion with low-quality content mass-produced by AI. Both big AI labs shipped a `loop` this year: Codex has /goal , and Claude Code has /goal and /loop. If your harness is "run the agent again," you're playing table stakes because the loop was never the hard part - the challenge is at the end when something has to tell an agent 'stop' or 'continue,' and then a human has to stamp it.
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