The uncomfortable truth behind “AI slop” is that the bar depends on the code’s job
What jumped out at me is that Boris Cherny didn’t try to pretend there’s one clean rule. That’s the honest answer, and also the annoying one if you were hoping for a crisp doctrine from the person behind Claude Code. The split the developer described feels real to me. There’s throwaway code, where “black box” is fine because the code is disposable and the blast radius is tiny. And then there’s production code, where I don’t think anyone actually wants to trust vibes, even if they say they do. Th
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