A developer emailed Claude Code's creator about AI slop. Boris Cherny wrote back.

Boris Cherny shared his response to a developer worried about AI slop.

Bloomberg/Getty Images A developer emailed Claude Code creator Boris Cherny that AI coding had created "friction." Cherny posted his full response to the engineer.

The developer's job is to "hold the bar on code quality," Cherny wrote.

Developers are worried about AI.

The creator of Claude Code has a response.

On Thursday, Anthropic's Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X.

The email was titled: "What to do about slop?" Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as many as possible.

It's no surprise that developers are reaching out to Cherny with their worries.

AI has radically changed coding , shifting job descriptions and turning engineers into reviewers.

Some engineers love the ease; others call it lonely and tedious .

In the email, the unnamed developer wrote that the shift to AI coding was causing "friction." He broke it down into two views and asked Cherny to broker the dispute.

The first view was a more restrained use of AI tools: We create code similar to before, accelerated by AI.

We may not review all of it, but it should be reviewable.

The person submitting the code should be able to explain it.