Hot take: good teams have always had this problem. Great teams learn to solve it. Back in the days before AI, I would regularly spend weekends on yolo PRs changing thousands of lines of code. The goal wasn’t to merge. I just wanted to get a feel for what the changes would look like. Tons of reasons for this: - exploring architecture - figuring out blast radius of changes - getting early product feedback - feeling out different flows, APIs etc The key to making this work: assume all PRs will…

Jamie Turner@jamwt18h ago

Every startup would secretly admit how much of a pain the "slop grenade" problem is. Bold of Tobi to say it out loud. Everyone else is dealing with the same thing: balancing output volume, quality, and confusion about who's responsible for what comes out. Keep holding people accountable for their actual work. The quality vs productivity pressure works itself out when accountability is clear.