How not to ship slop

AI slop is easy to recognize after the fact. It is the landing page with a purple-blue gradient, Inter, three rounded feature cards, and a headline that could belong to any SaaS company. It is the blog post full of "pivotal", "crucial", "delve", and "underscores". It is the generated image with the wrong hands or the wrong physics. The problem is not always that it looks broken. More often, the…