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Slop
Slop predates AI by thirty years
Slop predates AI by thirty years. Template economies produce identical surfaces — the same layout, the same hierarchy, the same decisions not made. AI accelerates what was already in motion. The original cause remains: building without having decided first.
All perspectives
Reckoning
Four decisions that made the governing layer invisible
Governing principle
The decision that precedes every other
Hidden design
How an engineering choice became a design assumption
Slop
Slop predates AI by thirty years
Content creators
Your content reaches everyone the same way
Prior art
A thirty-year-old method the design field never named
Spec before AI
Any AI can convert a design document into a Catenator specification
Structured content
Structured content and the governance argument