Quoting Soohoon Choi
<blockquote cite="https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future"><p>I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain. Competition is high between the AI models right now, and the ones that win will help developers ship reliable features fastest, which requires simple, maintainable code. Good code will prevail, not only because we want it to (though we do!), but because economic forces demand it. Markets will not reward slop in coding, in the long-term.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">— <a href="https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future">Soohoon Choi</a>, Slop Is Not Necessarily The Future</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/slop">slop</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/ta
1st April 2026
I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain. Competition is high between the AI models right now, and the ones that win will help developers ship reliable features fastest, which requires simple, maintainable code. Good code will prevail, not only because we want it to (though we do!), but because economic forces demand it. Markets will not reward slop in coding, in the long-term.
— Soohoon Choi, Slop Is Not Necessarily The Future
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