the definition of "slop" is not constant
something we may see as impressive today will be seen as slop a few months down the road
i think the constant part is - if something can be one-shot by AI, it is slop
because if you can one-shot it, millions of others can too. and when that happens, people associate it with being low-effort and worthless
this is one of the reasons that fully automated software factories are not going to work because by definition what they produce is always slop
the ones that do work are those that put humans at the center and are designed to help amplify human craftsmanship rather than trying to replace it