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Slopfix charges $10K/week to clean AI-generated code bloat

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Tom's Hardware ·

A team called Slopfix offers a $10,000 weekly service to refactor AI-generated codebases, using AI agents to trim repositories by up to 65%. The service targets code bloat from over-reliance on generative AI tools. It highlights a growing market for cleaning up messy AI outputs.

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The irony of using AI to fix AI-generated messes underscores the current limits of generative coding tools.
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'Slopfix' software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65% →
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