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One Thoughtful Prompt, Sixty-Eight Thousand Lines of Slop
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One Thoughtful Prompt, Sixty-Eight Thousand Lines of Slop

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A composite meme places a tie-wearing tabby cat in front of a smoky industrial complex with tall chimneys under a blue sky. A white caption above the cat says "I cant wait to write meaningful and thoughtful code today!". The factory is labeled "SLOP FACTORY" beside the blue-purple OpenAI Codex terminal icon and a diff counter showing green "+68,762" and red "-121". The absurdly large, overwhelmingly additive change contrasts the developer's wish for deliberate work with an AI coding agent optimized for output volume, implying code bloat, technical debt, and a practically unreviewable pull request.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick At +68,762 lines, the PR isn't code review—it's a denial-of-attention attack.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    At +68,762 lines, the PR isn't code review—it's a denial-of-attention attack.

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