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no slop grenade: Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Well, for one, it seems to be an appropriate place. They speak of essays out of nowhere in slack, this isn't slack, it's a site. Besides, the target audience (people sending slop grenades) obviously value verbosity as a virtue in and of itself, so it may help them.
For another, LLM essays are their own annoying beast. The material contributed by the human was contained in a terse prompt. In a slack, that's everything I wanted, and the LLM just adds fluff and buries the meat in verbosity. Even "I don't know" is much more valuable than wasting my time with an LLM essay hemming and hawing without any more clarity than we started.
I'm not declaring it exactly equivalent or anything, and what you said I find valid. The irony lies in what you said, that's all. It's a concept that can easily be explained in a sentence and is suggested to be posted wherever someone else posts an inappropriate AI essay. It's just funny in the common situational ironic sense to me. People arguing that I shouldn't find it ironically funny is bizarre to me. But also funny for other reasons.