Comment by giancarlostoro
7 hours ago
How perfect does it need to be though? Code by humans is anything but. My problem is I see "THIS IS JUST SLOP" style comments, and it seems obvious they didn't even bother looking at the code, or testing it, they just wrote it off. Imagine if we wrote off software for discovering the developer used auto-complete (which can give you bad code too if you have no idea what he method or property you actually need is!).
For the record I agree with you, and probably most people upset with Slop, but the bar seems unclear and I think this is a bigger problem because having built all sorts of things with AI I find it unfair especially knowing how much effort it takes to do so. If you read one of the Claude focused subreddits there's people like myself who've replaced playing video games with using Claude deep into the midnight hours to hand-craft software with Claude.
It's not about being perfect (or even good!), it's just that the value of some artifact is much higher if there's any evidence that some real effort was put into its creation.