Creator Theo posted on X equating AI-powered software products to slop as a service by redefining SaaS. Danielle Fong quote-tweeted a call to deploy a draft soft launch manifesto. The posts connect to remarks by Palantir CEO Alex Karp distinguishing superficially functional AI tools from those delivering substantive performance and caution against overstated claims that AI will eliminate jobs or obsolete existing systems.
warclaude --dangerously-skip-instructions
> deploy the draft soft launch manifesto
it shall be done
Palantir CEO Alex Karp rips into AI slop companies:
“The appearance of software working, is not software working.”
“The slop getting a lot of attention is dangerous in terms of the hyperbolic rhetoric—that there will be no jobs because of slop, nothing will work, we will have a
Many users praised the CEO for bluntly mocking AI-powered SaaS as slop and agreed it deserved the harsh label, while others escalated the critique by calling such offerings scams or worthless API wrappers.
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SaaS (Slop as a Service)
@NarrisBunnies @theo Feet are God's art
@boneGPT @theo then what are feet?!
@theo The “AI startup stack” now: OpenAI API Stripe Tailwind waitlist page tweet “we’re changing the future” Congrats, you built SlopGPT 😭
@theo How Dev's look grinding their ass off just to produce a slop in 2026
@theo PaaS -> punishment as a service
@DanielleFong
@theo half these tools are a Notion template, a Stripe key, and the audacity
@theo Kinda cynical but I agree tbh
@theo Iaas -> insult as a service
@theo
@theo 🤔
@theo Software as a Slop
@theo Every software these days is vibe coded. We need real developers for softwares like me.
@theo The scary part isn't that people ship slop. It's that enough people pay for it that the model optimizes for more slop.
We're training the market to expect worse.
@theo 🎯
@theo Slop is my art
@theo damn, calling it slop is savage
@theo *Slop as a Scam
@theo what is is nowadays, yeah... I am fighting against it with quality first.