AI Hype Slop

Half of what gets called "AI" right now is slop. Demos that don't survive contact with a real workflow. Numbers that don't survive a calculator. Capabilities that get walked back the moment somebody actually uses them. **The signal-to-noise ratio in the AI conversation is the worst it has ever been — and it is getting worse, not better.**The cost is not just annoyance. The cost is that real builders, real users, and real decisions are being made based on demos that are essentially performance art. When the marketing budget exceeds the engineering budget by an order of magnitude, you do not have a product. You have a story about a product.This is a short rant and a sharper filter — how to separate the slop from the actual signal, and what to assume by default about any AI claim that arrives via press release rather than via shipped product.