#process

Shopify's CEO calls unreviewed AI output slop grenades. Over a long migration I generated hundreds of AI pull requests and kept the slop to myself. But careful engineers can only do so much. I think stopping slop grenades takes a process that makes them impossible.

Evals, backpressure and agent guardrails are the feedback loops we already had. The mechanism didn't change, only who reads the output.

My video titles are usually just the name of the pattern. I won't do clickbait, so I'm experimenting: put the boring, accurate name on the thumbnail and use the title field as a hook.

AI is accelerating PR volume and cracking a review bottleneck that's been straining for years. The proposed fix — let any engineer approve anything — guts the signal four-eyes is supposed to provide. There's a better answer, and it predates AI.