Cognitive Surrender. I can feel it happening every time I use this employer-mandated Cursor crap. I’m fighting it as hard as I can. Every AI slop pull request I have to review makes me die a little more inside.
“Over the last few months, we have stopped getting AI slop security reports in the curl project,” said Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, in a social media post. “They’re gone. Instead, we get an ever-increasing amount of really good security reports, almost all done with the help of AI.”
Cognitive Surrender. I can feel it happening every time I use this employer-mandated Cursor crap. I’m fighting it as hard as I can. Every AI slop pull request I have to review makes me die a little more inside.
“Over the last few months, we have stopped getting AI slop security reports in the curl project,” said Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, in a social media post. “They’re gone. Instead, we get an ever-increasing amount of really good security reports, almost all done with the help of AI.”
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/ai_coding_tools_more_work/