A developer emailed Claude Code's creator about AI slop. Boris Cherny wrote back.
THE SO WHAT
The friction complaint — AI-generated "slop" in codebases — is now reaching tool creators directly, not just showing up in Twitter threads. If you're shipping AI coding tools, the next competitive axis is not raw completion power but how well you manage quality, review load, and team trust over months of real-world use.
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