Generation Is Cheap, Review Is Expensive: How to Stop Shipping AI Slop — Gabriel Martinez, G2i

Slop isn't AI-written code. It's work that looks finished before the thinking is.

Gabriel "Gabo" Martinez, engineering manager and self-described slop warden at G2i, explains what slop really is: what happens when generation outruns judgment, when ambiguity gets cleared with guesses and nobody notices there was a choice to make. He's not anti-AI, but argues we need to sober up. Code is still a liability, agents make a messy codebase messier faster, and quick prototypes convince stakeholders the hard part is done. He covers the pressure to merge faster than you can review, thousand-line PRs, 20-page AI docs that push the thinking onto reviewers, and why generation is cheap but evaluation is expensive. His fixes are conventions, diagrams as the review surface, small reviewable changes and clear ownership, inspired by Rails, plus why G2i built ORC.

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