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SLOP-CREEP: WHEN BUILDING GETS CHEAPER THAN THINKING

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AI agents have created "slop-creep" - the accumulation of unnecessary features, abstractions, and infrastructure built simply because they are cheap to produce. Without implementation friction, weak ideas survive longer, especially in large companies where software persists.