Keep Your Slop to Yourself
The article discusses the importance of sharing well-crafted content rather than raw, unedited AI outputs. It emphasizes that the effort put into creating a document should exceed the effort required to read it. The author encourages individuals to share drafts only after thorough verification and to disclose the context of any AI-generated content.
- ▪Sharing unedited AI outputs is considered rude and creates an imbalance of effort.
- ▪The author suggests that content should reflect more effort in its creation than in its consumption.
- ▪It is acceptable to share drafts that have been read and edited, along with the original prompts for context.
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Keep Your Slop to Yourself Sat May 23 2026 You’ve probably heard this already but, I keep coming across this pattern and I wanted to add another post to the cause. Generating a wall of text is now free while reading, verifying, and distilling still cost time and effort on the recipient. That asymmetry is what makes you sharing that document consisting of raw unrequested AI output rude. As this vibecoded website says, stop sloppypasta! The overall principle I keep in mind is what you send should take you more effort to produce than it takes me to read. This applies to chats, but also to code, bug reports, PRs, emails, docs, and now, it seems slides too. This is also especially bad when the point of the writing is to demonstrate your thinking.
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