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Friction removed Workplace Shopify, CA

Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else

Employees send AI-generated missives and code without reading them; recipients spend hours revising the output, with a study finding 38% of desk workers receive 'workslop' costing an average of 3.4 hours per month to clean up.

Who pays: Coworkers and reviewers who lose hours parsing, verifying, and fixing unvetted AI-generated drafts and code.

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