Slop Rolls Downhill

“Here’s today’s batch,” he said gleefully, handing over a double-bagged parcel of half-brewed slop weighing exactly two pull requests and 11,700 lines of code. The batch will reach a "senior" engineer who cares too much about the integrity of the codebase, or, at least, too much for the agentic era. In the old days, he might have knocked it back. The pull requests were too large, he would have…