"I suggest the social action: shame.
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"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.
None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices.
The AI industry is also running a PR push to redefine common word usage. The word “slop” is also super effective — so the bros really hate “slop” and try to define it to mean slop they don’t like.
But all AI output is slop. It’s social spam. That’s what it’s for. It’s slop! Say “slop” every time."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/
@tante How's BSD handling the slop? I might need to switch...
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@tante I've seen a push to redefine slop as "particularly bad LLM output", as opposed to LLM output in general.
"Our new AI tool eliminates slop" my brother in christ you _are_ the slop
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"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.
None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices.
The AI industry is also running a PR push to redefine common word usage. The word “slop” is also super effective — so the bros really hate “slop” and try to define it to mean slop they don’t like.
But all AI output is slop. It’s social spam. That’s what it’s for. It’s slop! Say “slop” every time."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/
@tante [1 of 2] The wording is a bit too strong there, blaming wrong people for wrong things. Slop is a result of a developer ignoring the code output. It was there before LLMs, though people have to try harder even if they just copy-paste from StackOverflow without thinking.
Author assumed there are AI Overlords, while in reality it’s just a bunch of corrupted and greedy (and mostly crazy) technocrats.
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@tante [1 of 2] The wording is a bit too strong there, blaming wrong people for wrong things. Slop is a result of a developer ignoring the code output. It was there before LLMs, though people have to try harder even if they just copy-paste from StackOverflow without thinking.
Author assumed there are AI Overlords, while in reality it’s just a bunch of corrupted and greedy (and mostly crazy) technocrats.
@tante [2 of 2] What I want to say, that trashing a person that spent most of his life working on open source software that power almost everything for decision to use or allow LLM-generated code… - well, not nice.
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@tante though let’s apply it to institutions and powerful individuals first and foremost.
I don’t feel like shaming my local takeaway for their slop flyer.
I very much view slop flyers for restaurants through a different lens based on the price of the food and how many locations they have.
The cheap take out on the corner: whatever, I might complain a bit if I think they'll listen but unless there is a comparable one without a slop flyer nearby I'm not actually changing anything
The local chain with 10 locations around the city: actively looking for alternatives
The global chain: probably already boycotting them for other reasons
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@tante How's BSD handling the slop? I might need to switch...
@gudenau NetBSD says no slop.
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@tante [2 of 2] What I want to say, that trashing a person that spent most of his life working on open source software that power almost everything for decision to use or allow LLM-generated code… - well, not nice.
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@tante It seems to me that some people’s opposition to AI is downright fanatical. It’s one thing to have silly pictures of cats doing human activities; it’s another thing to use AI to help create software, where it’s actually useful.
This black-and-white rejection of generative AI is childish. -
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"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.
None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices.
The AI industry is also running a PR push to redefine common word usage. The word “slop” is also super effective — so the bros really hate “slop” and try to define it to mean slop they don’t like.
But all AI output is slop. It’s social spam. That’s what it’s for. It’s slop! Say “slop” every time."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/
@tante I came up with the phrase "AI-guzzling slop-jockeys" which I'm rather proud of.
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Being shamed by @tante is like being tickled by a fly. At most annoying
@Profpatsch @tante I love Mastodon account notes. Clicked thru and was not disappointed by past-me:
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@renardboy @tante Exactly. Also, various corporations contributed tons of code to the Linux kernel. Google, Meta and so on. The problem with such purisms is that they don’t see shit beyond one phrase, word or action of one person at some point in time. Suddenly, that one thing summarize that person.
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"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.
None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices.
The AI industry is also running a PR push to redefine common word usage. The word “slop” is also super effective — so the bros really hate “slop” and try to define it to mean slop they don’t like.
But all AI output is slop. It’s social spam. That’s what it’s for. It’s slop! Say “slop” every time."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/
I would of never thought he'd go this route.
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