July 19, 2026 • By Hassan Aziz
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So I've seen products built by humans and built by AI. I've seen ones that go viral and ones that go bankrupt.
I'm noticing that the biggest quality that separates the winners from the slop shitters is that the former actually give a damn about the thing they're building.
Most of y'all don't care. You're shitting out slop as fast as the latest Claude can write it. You're creating useless apps that even you yourself wouldn't wanna use. Instead of building something useful for weeks or months, you'll try to vibe code one-shot something in hours or days. And somehow it doesn't cross your mind that if you can build it in hours, so can everyone else. Which makes your thing utterly useless to begin with.
Meanwhile folks who actually care about what they're building will take their time building the right thing, and building it the right way.
They'll write proper tests, craft the perfect UI/UX, keep the codebase clean and readable (even if it is entirely AI-generated), and build something that people genuinely wanna use instead of just sloppy clones of popular SaaS apps.
Basically they're making more decisions about the code than any vibe coders ever will. That's another big thing I noticed. The more decisions you make yourself, the more genuine and "tasteful" the project turns out. And the less decisions you make (and let the AI make those decisions for you), the more the project turns into complete slop that nobody wants to read, maintain, or even use it as an end user.
Honestly speed of shipping code means nothing if nobody ever wants to use that code.
AI is awesome, but it's just a tool. Not a solution. The solution comes by you using the tool. The tool itself is not the solution. Stop confusing the two.
Anyway, rant over.