37,000 Lines of Slop

A critical take on the trend of equating AI-generated line counts with productivity, using Y Combinator CEO Gary Tan's claim of writing 37,000 lines of code per day as a case study. An audit of his blog reveals serious issues: 300KB of test files shipped to every visitor, uncompressed multi-megabyte images, a rich text editor leaking into the frontend bundle, 47 images missing alt tags, and page content rendered twice in the DOM. The post argues that blindly accepting AI output without review is dangerous, advocates for slowing down and reading every line the AI produces, and warns against a new wave of AI coaches promoting raw output volume as a measure of success.