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Stop Sloppypasta — 417pts on HN.

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Manifesto against unread LLM output pasted into work. Three anti-patterns: The Eager Beaver, The OrAIcle, The Ghostwriter. Key insight: LLM generation is free but verification still costs the recipient, eroding trust asymmetrically as volume scales. Stop Sloppypasta


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