| ▲ | VBprogrammer 2 hours ago | |
Technical debt is a indefinable quantity which makes it very prone to be abused to mean "I wish I could rewrite this in [insert some fashionable language, framework or coding style]". AI slop is an easier concept to quantify. It's basically the code for which insufficient people in the organisation have a meaningful understanding of how it works or what it does. | ||
| ▲ | strix_varius an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> It's basically the code for which insufficient people in the organisation have a meaningful understanding of how it works or what it does. Its connotation also includes being vastly larger than needed for the purpose it serves, _if_ there is even any purpose. | ||