Stop Reading Every Line of Code

A provocative argument that developers — even those writing critical code — are not generating enough AI-assisted code. The core thesis is that AI-generated code doesn't have to go into production to be valuable: it can be used as throwaway verification tooling, custom debuggers, test harnesses, and exploratory scripts. The author distinguishes between 'important code that ships' and 'slop code that verifies,' arguing that cheap code generation should dramatically expand the latter category. Engineers who insist every line must be hand-reviewed are missing the point — not because they should lower their standards for production code, but because they should be writing far more disposable code to stress-test and validate the code that matters.