Joe Magee / Wall Street Journal / Vibe Slop

The ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming!

Joe Magee has been commissioned by Wall Street Journal to illustrate a piece about the emergent combining of ‘vibe coding’ and ‘AI slop’.

Artificial intelligence, supposedly capable of replacing well-paid software developers, is flooding the world with bad, potentially even dangerous, code. Non-expert coders (‘vibe coders’) working with AI are generating ‘vibe slop’. Real coders are often spending more time proofing and debugging the vibe slop code than if they’d made it themselves in the first place!

Joe opted to use an emoji-style floating head.to capture the idea of ’slop‘ – modern, bland, automated, meaningless communication.