BMAD's Founder on the Future of AI Coding (And the Slop Apocalypse)

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• The real “slop apocalypse” in AI coding isn’t catastrophic failures, but a quiet degradation where comments desynchronize and agent-written code goes unrefactored, making AI coding slower and more expensive over time.
• Brian Madison, BMAD’s founder, advocates for a “human on the loop” approach over full automation, a philosophy shared by Cole Medin’s own framework, with BMAD v7 focusing on team collaboration and shifting emphasis to planning.
• To avoid this impending “slop apocalypse,” organizations should prioritize active human oversight, refactoring, and cultivating “systems thinkers” to ensure code quality and effective AI adoption.