“Workslop” is when your colleagues or bosses communicate with you by pasting big chunks of AI-generated text. The core problem with workslop is that the effort involved is asymmetrical, like a denial-of-service attack: it takes almost no effort to produce text with AI, but it still costs effort to read.
I just spent a days reviewing and reworking “top priority critical” code that was entirely AI generated, on an AI written PR, and someone else’s AI approved it and said it was great and so clever.
At no point did the PR say what it did at a structural level, but it went on in great details the technical components and a bunch of numbers that all sounded good in isolation.
I had to shut it down because it didn’t consider any impacts of said code, and it was going to fuck the whole system up in incredibly expensive and non obvious ways.
Now I have a meeting with a VP about why this urgent feature isn’t getting shipped, because customers want it…
I’m so tired of this sloppifaction of my job.
Claude/Codex are fundamentally broken, they cannot communicate at all anymore. They’ve spent 10 months reinforcement training it to be “agentic”, which means bad at communicating and solely focused on achieving benchmark coding tasks.
If you paste Claude output in slack, an email, or a PR, I fucking hate you and will enter your dreams and murder you Freddy Krueger style.