A manager explains how to stop teams from churning out low-quality AI output. Instead of punishing, coach people to use AI thoughtfully. Build a culture where sloppy work doesn't pass, so mistakes get caught early and quality becomes the norm.
Some people are still highly engaged using their full mind and thinking through the problems and using AI where it's appropriate. But there's other people that just put it in a Claude and push AI slop, right? Uh, it's sometimes I'm able to deduce myself when something doesn't seem quite right and you push on it a bit. Being a manager, I do have the powers to be able to push back and be like, This ain't it. This is not good enough. You need to try harder in these ways. And, and not in a punitive sense, but in a coaching sense. But, um, uh, what I'm finding is that the, the tolerance for AI slop is, is, um, very low. If you build a culture where you, you don't like AI slop, right, then, then it can be self-correcting to catch when it leaks out and it happens. Because sometimes it's, it's, it's not malicious, it's not lazy, it's just like, oh shoot, I didn't look into this one area of the spec that I was generating, and next thing you know, it went off the rails. And hey, maybe You gotta check that before you— before it wrecks you.
