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Please stop labelling a project as slop just because it has been developed using AI. Coding agent are now replacing the IDE and code is now mostly written by the agents.

Please stop telling people what to do. Also, the discussion of the merits of LLM code writing is far from over. Author of TFA actually provided an interesting data point, you are just rehashing an often heard opinion.

Why are you so aggressive? I am not rehashing opinions, I'm writing my opinion. Also, I'm not even saying that the author did a bad article. So your comment is a bit out of line.

It's not about who wrote the code, rather who made decisions.

So we are calling the developers as sloppy now just because they use AI? It is entirely possible to use AI and still produce good code - the effort required changes, but so long as it is done by a diligent developer capable of asessing and correcting AI code, it should be fine.

That's my point, diligent use of AI is indistinguishable. And because of bad rep we will see any bad code called out "AI slop".

> Coding agent are now replacing the IDE and code is now mostly written by the agents.

If you're doing that, you are producing slop. So it should be called out as slop.


I did not say I don't read any produced code; I said I don't write it manually. What I wanted to demystify is that you can generate everything with AI and still put a lot of work into design choices, good code structure, and so on, without producing any slop.

I met my wife in Slowly. I can't reccomend it enough for a Pen pal experience.


Slowly lets you meet pen pals from your smartphone! Match with someone that shares your passions, write a letter, and collect stamps from around the world. Speak your mind—one letter at a time!

Letters take time to be delivered

The farther away your pen pal lives, the longer it will take to reach them. Why rush through replies? Make your letter be worth the wait!

https://slowly.app/

Interesting concept, and I’m glad the magic was there for the two of you.

Words and ideas are meaningful. Finding a physical artifact from a far off place in the mailbox; seeing the stamps, markings, smudges, and other evidence of its journey; opening the envelope; and reading the other’s handwritten words add another dimension. Similarly, holding a paper book is a different experience, so I suspect that more than nostalgia is at work.


What a neat idea. It's basically email, but it knows where you are and where your pen-pal is, and doesn't deliver the email until the appropriate snail-mail time between those locations passes? Brilliant.


I've made many good, long-term friends through penpal sites, including my wife as well!


i'd not heard of Slowly; googled, etc.

how sort of perversely lovely (i say it in an admiring manner), to meet in a gloriously old-fashioned manner on such a modern platform!

love it.


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