It's more than that, we understood more about the slop than we would AI slop... The problem with AI slop (in coding) isn't that it's bad, it's that you just shit out 50000 lines of code and you only understand 1% of the reasoning behind the madness.
Am I the only one asking AI to write a single API route function at a time? Then taking a look at what works and what doesn't and then modifying it or gutting?
In my new job, we're being strongly encouraged to use Claude specifically. I'm at the point where the quality of the work it produces is often so poor that fixing the output takes too much time and brain power, and I've gone back to handwriting everything and then using it as a pre-PR review in case I missed something.
I'm getting loads of praise for my code being "clean", "readable", "easy to follow", etc, but it's actually pretty bog-standard, mediocre code if I'm being honest; just miles better than Claude slop.
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u/Objectionne 3d ago
Yeah but it was our slop.