When AI content isn't slop
· 7 min read
In a post on my personal site I talked about the forces reshaping developer advocacy. One theme that kept coming up was content saturation. AI has made it trivially easy to produce content, and the result is a flood of generic, shallow material that exists to fill space rather than help anyone. People have started calling this "AI slop," and the term captures something real. Recycled tutorials, SEO-bait blog posts, content that says nothing you couldn't get by asking a chatbot directly. There's a lot of it, and it's getting worse.
The backlash against AI slop is entirely justified. But I've been wondering whether it has started to go too far.
