Techies write a manifesto begging their bosses: Please, don't make us review AI's thousand-page nonsense anymore.

A group of software engineers and leaders, inspired by the historic Agile Manifesto, have published the "No AI Slop Manifesto." They argue that while AI is an incredibly useful tool for generating code, documentation, and plans, it's increasingly flooding the workplace with low-quality, un-reviewed output that's cheap to produce but expensive to understand. The manifesto defines "slop" as any AI-generated work where the creator invests less effort than they demand from the consumer who must review or use it. For engineers, this means a rising tide of massive, context-free pull requests and endless documentation that no human can realistically parse, turning their workdays into an endless slog of quality control. The takeaway? AI isn't the problem; it's the human tendency to blindly ship its first draft that's creating a productivity-killing mess.