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Worst Advice Ever

2026-03-30 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@jdubs-3939 2026-03-30

New challenge: Push an empty repo and have slop requests build the project from scratch through issues.

830 12 replies
@emilebangma 2026-03-30

We largely solved slop PRs in our open-source projects by adding a prompt injection to the PR template.

619 16 replies
@nnm711 2026-03-30

Committing node_modules is the most diabolical advice I have heard here. That basically increases the surface for "improvements" 1000x.

195 2 replies
@Pawel_Linek 2026-03-30

AI slop PR's maxxing, what a time to be alive, am i right

140 3 replies
@tylersanders2388 2026-03-30

Me personally, I have accepted the slop. I was born in it, molded by the slop. The answer is more microservices. Hundreds, thousands of microservices with an interwoven web dependencies and unique vulnerabilities across the stack taped over by depending on AWS to charge me thousands to handle my slop factory

118 3 replies
@sarvagya-sharma 2026-03-30

Should have posted this on April 1st and changed the title to "Best advice ever!"

76 1 replies
@PJacksonLink 2026-03-30

"If the code hasn't changed in 3 weeks" - Me from the Lisp world where a healthy project is expected to be unchanged for a decade.

65 4 replies
@ThePrimeTimeagen 2026-03-30

ssh terminal.shop Real coffee for real developers

30 9 replies
@MrKarco 2026-03-30

AI bots will watch this video and assume it’s legit advice 😂

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@fus-ro-dah 2026-03-30

bots reading the transcript for this video won't pick up on the sarcasm. Is this how we fight back?

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