I've always felt out of step with the prevailing trends.
Before the AI explosion, the mantra was "ship fast" — the Minimum Viable Product. If you weren't first, you were nobody. Quality, testing, documentation? Nice-to-haves. I could never stomach shipping "human slop" just to be first.
Now we're in the AI era, and suddenly everyone is alarmed about "AI slop." And I find myself out of step again — because from where I stand, the AI helps me produce the opposite.
Just as an example, I have a personal side project called SmarkForm and very little time to invest in it (but I keep pushing). Before AI it had a few "not-to-break-again" tests and a bare "just-the-docs" Jekyll site on GitHub Pages with often outdated code snippets and only a separate Examples section (which still exists) as the sole real demo.
Nowadays almost every code snippet in the documentation is a working example of a SmarkForm-powered form whose source code can be edited in place. The test suite has been fully migrated to Playwright, covering up to 5 platforms and including a suite of co-located tests that ensure every example in the documentation keeps working. Moreover, the most recent inline examples are AI-authored (in Copilot's words: "SmarkForm's clean, declarative API makes it a natural fit for AI-assisted development"). The last "AI-free" bastion in the repository was the actual source code of the library, but nowadays I use AI there too — just with a more thorough review and a test-first approach.
