Sunday, March 15, 2026

AI Skills vs "AI slop"

AI slop refers to low-quality, generic, and mass-produced digital content (text, images, video) generated by artificial intelligence with little to no human oversight. Designed to clog social media feeds, manipulate algorithms, and generate quick revenue, it is characterized by inaccuracies, "brainrot" content, and a lack of authentic value.

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.


Matteo Collina's Skills (prominent JS OSS developer)


"I've grown frustrated by the slop being generated and the amount of corrections I had to do. After years of building with Node.js, Fastify, and TypeScript, I've learned a lot: patterns that work, tools that save time, and gotchas that bite you when you least expect it. I need my AI assistants to match (or at least get close) my expectations.

I decided to organize all of this into a collection my AI assistant can use to help me work faster. Here is my skills repo that you can start using with a simple: npx skills add mcollina/skills. This repo encode my preferences and best practices so I don't have to repeat myself every time. You might find it useful as well."