A Freelancer Reflects on an AI-Obsessed Client and the Rise of AI Slop

Summary

A freelancer describes a conversation with a long-term client who has been developing a restaurant-management app with Lovable. The client also wants to automate marketing through Higgsfield and use agents to publish reviews for vendors. The author acknowledges that the client's growing fluency with these tools is impressive, while worrying that it reduces software and content creation to low-effort production. Drawing on a lifelong involvement with computers, the internet, and music, the author argues that social media, music, and online culture may be filling with AI-generated “slop.” The client’s apparent indifference troubles the author because the tools let him feel creative for perhaps the first time. The post ends by asking how others are coping with this change.