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Countering PR Slop

The Progressive Path to responsible AI-Assisted Development

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Sam Keen
Nov 06, 2025
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A message from a colleague (Reliability engineer at a large enterprise company) landed in my inbox this week. Their team’s internal architect had just submitted a PR with a note: “Ready for review.”

The inspection of the PR revealed 6,000 lines of changes. Brand new documentation that made no sense. Code with no tests. Tests commented out. New code that …

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