A developer emailed Claude Code’s creator about AI slop. Boris Cherny wrote back.0

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• September 12, 2026

Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: “What to do about slop?” Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as