CryptoLoveR
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🇺🇸 NY is banning “MOTHER” and “FATHER” on official docs. Now it’s “gestating parent” and “non-gestating person.” Whatever that means. . . It's Newspeak being shoved down New Yorkers' throats right in front of us







Respect the workflow. Hard disagree on the word. Everything described here isn't slop. It's rapid prototyping with AI as the engine. Transparent, labeled, with a cleanup plan baked in. That's the OPPOSITE of slop. Slop means someone stopped at the first AI output and shipped it as final. No iteration. No quality gate. No plan to improve. The word exists because that behavior became an epidemic. Calling intentional disposable draft work "slop" muddies the entire definition. It gives cover to every person who generates one pass of AI content and publishes it without a second look. "See? Even the Terraform guy says slop is a tool." The "generate 100 things overnight" framework also assumes unlimited token budgets. Most solo devs and small teams can't burn through 100 generations to find 3 winners. Constrained budgets force better prompting and more deliberate iteration. That discipline compounds. Someone who carefully prompted 10 and refined 3 understands WHY those 3 worked. Someone who generated 100 and filtered by vibes just knows which ones survived. One scales with skill. The other scales with spend. The anti-examples in the original tweet prove this. "I wouldn't PR this." "I wouldn't ship this to customers." If you already know it can't leave your desk, you're not describing a strategy. You're describing rough drafts. We don't need to rebrand rough drafts as "slop" to give ourselves permission to move fast. Fast iteration with quality gates already has a name. Building. The word matters. Language shapes behavior. Call it slop and people settle for slop. Call it a prototype, a draft, a disposable test, and the expectation to improve stays baked in.










