Greptile CTO Soohoon Choi: 'Good Code Will Still Win' — Economic Incentives Will Force AI to Stop Writing Slop

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Greptile co-founder Soohoon Choi published a March 31 essay arguing AI slop is temporary because economics will correct it: good code is cheaper to generate and maintain in tokens, complex code requires exponentially more compute as codebases grow, and LLM providers paid per token are incentivized to optimize for simplicity. Drawing on Ousterhout's software design philosophy, he frames code quality as a market-driven outcome, not an ethical choice. Simon Willison signal-boosted the argument.