Comment by josefritzishere

3 hours ago

Is it premature to blame AI Slop?

No. As a Shopify User and app maintainer, I’ve started seeing more bugs and although Shopify is still much more reliable than Github, it’s the second time in 6 months I see it going down, something that would never happen 5 years ago.

Last month I found a critical bug in the forum where you could edit anyone’s post title.

Yes. We need statistics before that, not a single anecdote.

And even then we won't be able to tell if it's because of the AI or because they fired everybody that knows what they are doing.

> Is it premature to blame AI Slop?

You will never know. Lots of pretty important people publicly laid down the law that AI must be used; any indication that it produces crap will be hidden.

If you're asking the question, most likely yes. If you have evidence of the problem being AI slop, no.

  • The scientific method is generally to ask a question, and test it, before randomly collected evidence makes the obvious undeniable.

  • And even if it _was_ related to AI, they would not admit it. First course of action is to blame user/programmer error and then QA process error. You shall not blame the golden calf. I am half serious and half not. But I do recommend reading the book "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'" in conjunction with my hyperbole.