People do work at Microsoft though and they're probably aren't very happy when their work is called slop. You could even say they are feeling insulted or offended.

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miningape 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Simple. Don't produce slop then.

If it offends you so much that people call your work as it is, you should do better work, grow some thicker skin, or stop.

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wraptile 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd agree but if you ever been on the receiving end of a meme-train you'd see that it's not driven by rationality. I'm not familiar with this issue but my bet would be that even hand-crafted personal projects were being called slop because once meme runs away from initial meaning it just becomes closer to swear word than a meaning.

	▲	bigfishrunning an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If there was a lot of handcrafted personal projects coming from Microsoft, their reputation would change. But there isn't. I would imagine anyone who is interested in "handcrafted personal projects" sees the writing on the wall and is at least looking to leave Microsoft, which seems to be positioned to be the Prime Slop Factory.

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crote 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

See, that requires the code to be written by an actual human being, who has agency and a sense of pride and ownership about their work.

Maybe there are still some teams deep inside the bowels of Microsoft that management has forgotten about that still operate like that, but judging by the way the user-facing parts of its products have developed, the mass firings, and the pushing of AI-driven development by upper management, it seems very clear to me that there's very little risk of insulting anything anyone actually cares about.