ASDR (AI Slop, Don't Read)
September 10, 2026ASDR (AI Slop, Don't Read)Vincent Vankrunkelsven – 4 min read On a Wednesday morning in August, a colleague dropped a Claude artifact in #engineering. What follows is a chain of comments that leads to the creation of a new emoji. Rather than type it all out, here's a screenshot (anonymized of course, there's a strict policy against public shaming at Conveo): Turns out, nobody had properly read the document and a few minutes later, we concluded it was probably wrong.
- ▪September 10, 2026ASDR (AI Slop, Don't Read)Vincent Vankrunkelsven – 4 min read On a Wednesday morning in August, a colleague dropped a Claude artifact in #engineering.
- ▪What follows is a chain of comments that leads to the creation of a new emoji.
- ▪Rather than type it all out, here's a screenshot (anonymized of course, there's a strict policy against public shaming at Conveo): Turns out, nobody had properly read the document and a few minutes later, we concluded it was probably wrong.
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| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:44:53 +0000 |
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September 10, 2026ASDR (AI Slop, Don't Read)Vincent Vankrunkelsven – 4 min read On a Wednesday morning in August, a colleague dropped a Claude artifact in #engineering. The topic: a cross-page assistant. What follows is a chain of comments that leads to the creation of a new emoji. Rather than type it all out, here's a screenshot (anonymized of course, there's a strict policy against public shaming at Conveo): Turns out, nobody had properly read the document and a few minutes later, we concluded it was probably wrong. This triggered my reaction: And so a new meme was born! He called it my most important contribution of the day. All in all, we're still friends. The contract Jokes aside, the whole interaction did set something in motion.
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