What Does This Mean?
Code that is functionally low-quality, unnecessarily bloated, or subtly broken because it was generated by AI and merged with little to no human review, as a specific instance of the broader AI slop pattern.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The PR was full of AI slop code, three different ways of doing the same thing in one file."
LORE & ORIGIN
Applies the established 'AI slop' framing specifically to source code, distinguishing this quality failure from AI slop in writing, images, or video.
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