#thegeneraltheoryofslop
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #thegeneraltheoryofslop from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
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Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-09 23:07 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 13 public posts (spanning ~4437 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (13)
Avg boosts / post: 59
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I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase.
It’s absolutely true that AI is reducing jobs, but not like you think. AI is not *doing* those jobs instead of people, AI speculation is redirecting *investment* away from job-creating businesses to capital-intensive businesses. #TheGeneral
I want to coin another term, "Pyrrhic Productivity." When AI-coding agents promise speed by removing human effort but end up slowing work by breaking the feedback loops that produce understanding and shifting skilled work from doing to spec
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