Why AI feels generic: Replit CEO on slop, toys, and the missing ingredient of taste

Right now in the AI world, there are a lot of percolating ideas and experimentation. But as far as Replit CEO Amjad Masad is concerned, they're just "toys": unreliable, marginally effective, and generic. “There's a lot of sameness out there,” Masad explains in a new VB Beyond the Pilot podcast. “Everything kind of looks the same, all the images, all the code, everything.”This "slop," as it’s come to be known, is not only the result of lazy one-shot prompting, but a lack of individual flavor. “The way to overcome slop is for the platform to expend more effort and for the developers of the platform to imbue the agent with taste,” Masad says.How Replit overcomes being generic Replit tackles the slop problem through a mix of specialized prompting, classification features built into its design