Polsia is a new AI startup that just raised $30M. You’d think this is just another Tolkien-obsessed Silicon Valley startup - until you spell it backwards.
At a recent offsite, the most popular topic among our leadership was unsurprisingly AI. Not just how to use AI, but how to deal with the crushing wave of AI slop we are all drowning in.
Bloated, vacuous, AI-generated documents are frustrating teams everywhere. What should be a crisp one-page proposal, wrestled and distilled into clarity by a thoughtful human, is now routinely turning into an 8-page dumpster fire. Engineering leaders are echoing the exact same sentiment: low-effort, synthetic code is flooding code reviews and polluting production environments.
Please stop the slop!
Stop outsourcing your writing to AI.
Stop outsourcing your thinking to AI.
Stop subjecting your teams and customers to AI slop.
If you are a leader, call out and reject AI slop.
My advice is to consult AI at 20% progress - after you have a general frame and direction, and at 80% draft of the work. Use it as a sounding board to explore, pressure test and refine; not as an answer board to copy-paste.