I just delegated to AI like 99% of the work in a task that was mostly grunt work: writing tests. It wrote the tests, ran them, and when they found bugs, I had it fix them. The authority might have been delegated, but “agent” is definitely the right word for the amount of initiative I let it have.

“Clanker” is a tad cutesy, but fitting regardless. It brings to mind an archaic and clumsy whirring automaton with no reasoning or awareness of its context, an apt metaphor for slop submissions entirely generated neither by or for humans.