You Added AI. Congratulations, You Now Run a Slop Factory.

You gave your engineers AI tools and skipped the governance conversation. Now your PRs are tripling, your review queue is drowning, and nobody can tell the good code from the generated garbage. You did not adopt AI. You built a slop factory.

I was on a call with a friend this morning. Engineering leader at a company you have heard of. He was building an agent while we talked, writing code, shipping, the kind of thing that is just normal now for people who get it. I was writing this article while writing a different article. Two things happening at once. That is also normal now.