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I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain. Competition is high between the AI models right now, and the ones that win will help developers ship reliable features fastest, which requires simple, maintainable code. Good code will prevail, not only because we want it to (though we do!), but because economic forces demand it. Markets will not reward slop in coding, in the long-term. — Soohoon Choi , Slop Is Not N

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Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: WorkOS — Ready to sell to Enterprise clients? Build and ship securely with WorkOS. I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain. Competition is high between the AI models right now, and the ones that win will help developers ship reliable features fastest, which requires simple, maintainable code. Good code will prevail, not only because we want it to (though we do!), but because economic forces demand it. Markets will not reward slop in coding, in the long-term. — Soohoon Choi, Slop Is Not Necessarily The Future Posted 1st April 2026 at 2:07 am Recent articles Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer - 30th March 2026 Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun - 27th March 2026 Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills - 22nd March 2026 This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 1st April 2026. ai 1940 generative-ai 1721 llms 1687 ai-assisted-programming 370 slop 37 agentic-engineering 36 Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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