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title: "I undersign this. The fact that you generate slop doesn’t mean that you don’t know the..."
date: 2026-05-08
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I undersign this. The fact that you generate slop doesn’t mean that you don’t know the difference between good and bad code

In non-mission critical applications, slop let’s you go from 0 to 1 very quickly

Let the code grow without too much attention first. If it proves itself, tear it down and write it anew, this time properly. This is the way

*Quotes a post by @mitchellh (https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2052397933522506079); its text is omitted here because it is not covered by this site's license.*