"The Workslop Tax" by Marketoonist comic / Tom Fishburne - #GenAI has been earning a reputation for #workslop: polished-looking but unhelpful low-quality content that others need to rework or correct, if anyone does. https://marketoonist.com/2026/09/the-workslop-tax.html #AI #AIslop #business #tech #oops
I don't understand why my actual, lived real world experience is so diff from this cartoon
at the biotech I worked at until last year, all of the PhDs, engineers, and programmers - mostly smart people IMO - they all found AI to be a very powerful and extremely useful tool
@KO6YQ@pnw.zone
This is a major pain point for our team currently
Other team whose work we have to inspect to avoid it breaking our live system:
Yo, here's 3 code reviews vibe slopped in parallel. (The actual code changes may be mostly normal looking, but the unit tests are completely off the rails, but achieve 100% coverage!)
We've also autogenerated all the required docs:
@KO6YQ@pnw.zone exactly what we are facing. 2 sec to generate 30 minutes to read and comment. Asymmetry is unbearable. I see 2 ways of reacting to this (and actually were experimenting both right now):
Both are not with satisfying results yet. Any experience or other idea ?
@Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡 so true. but sometimes it also goes the right way: up. i already heard upper management complaining about the large amount of elaborate output they get from their underlings when they ask for infos and data ...
@KO6YQ@pnw.zone That's what getting a many-thousand-line diff to code review feels like.
And you know that the person who got a bot to shit it out is having their productivity metrics skyrocket, while yours are cratering.
I hate it. I hate it so, so fucking much.