Solution to slop
Posted to LinkedIn on 2026-05-25. The text below is the post as published.
The post linked to http://claude.ai/.
I have found the solution to so-called AI slop on LinkedIn.
Prompt your agentic assistant to write your post so that it doesn’t sound like a LinkedIn post. Then pay attention to the ensuing conversation.
I mean the conversation with the tool. Your back-and-forth in which the agentic assistant reflects your meaning back to you and asks: “Did you mean this?” Or offers: “I’d like to push back gently on that.” More than a mere mechanism, that conversation is an encounter. Your voice gets found as you ideate together toward clarity.
“Slop” signals a missed opportunity to move through that self-reflection. That is the writer’s responsibility, not the tool’s.
This post is intentionally self-referential. I had resolved never to write about whether to use these tools; that discourse is as tired as the slop it decries. But some writers can be fruitfully assisted by these technologies — including writers for whom English isn’t entirely comfortable. The question should not be whether to use the help. It is whether to accept the result without further interrogation.
My resolution: don’t accept the result. Keep the conversation going.
I received help from a Claude.ai Sonnet assistant to draft this post. The full transcript is online: https://lnkd.in/eKj2vbNs.