Slop is a standards problem

Your feed is full of warnings about an incoming tidal wave of AI slop. Unmaintainable code. Crushing tech debt. Anyone with a prompt and ten minutes shipping production code. The fear is real, but it misses what's actually going wrong.

Slop happens when the standard isn't stated. AI drives for done. Without a bar to clear, done is all you get. The way through is configuration: writing the standard down, once, in a file the machine and the human can both point at.

David makes the case that the same technology we fear will flood us with slop is the technology that can elevate the bar, if you set one. You'll leave with a simple framework to get started, a model for turning AI into a quality multiplier, and honest caveats about where this breaks down.