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"Merriam-Webster just announced that 'slop' is 2025’s word of the year…"
We have three Advent calendars on the go this year.
The new Uncanny Valley: you know you're chatting with a human support agent, but you also know they're using AI for responses.
"But my key takeaway would be that if your product is just a SQL wrapper on a billing system, you now have thousands of competitors: engineers at your customers with a spare Friday afternoon with an agent." An astute observation and good for users. Can confirm having spent a lot of years in enterprise software.