Slop Terrifies Me

kept by eddie feb 09

The HN discussion on AI slop reveals deep divisions over whether cheap, good-enough software from LLMs will destroy craft or just accelerate existing quality declines.

Flighty Airports
Flighty's new Airports feature provides a real-time dashboard of departure and arrival delays, cancellations, and alerts for major airports.
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Companies Aren’t Ripping Out Business Software for AI. Here’s What They’re Doing Instead. - WSJ
Large corporations are not replacing core business software with AI, but are using AI to build small custom apps and negotiate better vendor deals.
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The AI agent bottleneck isn't model performance — it's permissions
Workday's Sana platform addresses the enterprise AI agent bottleneck by embedding permission governance directly into its system of record, solving identity and accuracy for HR and finance workflows.
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Subscriptions Will Survive in Exactly Two Places
The subscription model survives only for genuine utilities and continuously-fresh-context services; the middle—static SaaS and exhausted catalogs—collapses as income shocks, context saturation, and AI repricing erode its math.
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SaaS, widely misunderstood ($CSU.TO, $TOI.V, $ADBE, $UBER, $CRM)
SaaS remains economically superior to internal AI-built alternatives, making AI an accelerant rather than a disruptor for established software companies.
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