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PURESLOP.md — teach your AI agent to write terrible code.

Alonso on April 03, 2026

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built A CLI that drops a single markdown file into your repo, one that in...
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Ben Halpern

Can't it just learn from my own code?

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Varshith V Hegde

Not sure about you , But surely mine atleast nowadays

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Alonso

With the right repos, we could train a new model: SlopDiffusion.

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This is simultaneously the funniest and most terrifying thing I've seen this week. The checkIfValueIsNullOrUndefined helper wrapping a null check is chef's kiss.

We maintain the polar opposite — a CLAUDE.md that explicitly says 'production-grade code, no shortcuts, no TODOs left behind, parameterized queries always, never use var.' It's essentially PURESLOP.md's evil twin.

The scariest part is that half the patterns in PURESLOP.md look exactly like real code I've seen in production repos. any everywhere, try-catch wrapping code that can't throw, comments that restate the line below them. The line between satire and reality is thinner than it should be.

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Alonso

"The line between satire and reality is thinner than it should be" that's the README I should have written.

And the scariest part of building this was realizing I didn't have to invent any of the patterns. I just had to write them down.

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Ahmed Yasser

I like the idea of overstepping on ai agent normal too perfect code , this could turn out into a signature file every body make so ai follow our methodology

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Alonso

I love the idea. What about something like SIGNATURE.md?

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Ahmed Yasser

Ya that's a great name the implementation though is the factor like how a developer will put his signature on , personalization questions maybe or only who needed it like seniors

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Alonso

A simple markdown file could do the job.

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Apogee Watcher

Got some 90's vibes here, good job!
In the next sprint, I would add a blink tag to the headings.

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Alonso

Already in the backlog. Priority: critical.

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Laurent Laborde

I love it !

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Alonso

glad you do