Workslop [1] in seemingly every possible dimension: excessive wording in Slack, with entire messages clearly not written or fully understood by the person writing; Notion pages with the same pattern; vast piles of internal engineering documents such as RFCs, ADRs and AVDs that were clearly not only not written by the author but also not even reviewed, ultimately conveying no information, a negative signal-to-noise ratio; the diagram equivalent of the same - visualisations with numerous typos and the characteristic visual quirks of diffusion-generated text, also conveying no actual information.

Agentic systems being deployed and adding more work in places: Slack messages now being picked up by workflows and AI integrations that automatically create messages, tickets, 'action items'; alerts triggering additional agentic investigation adding noise instead of reducing it (If you couldn't figure out actionable alerts before I'm not sure how an agentic system is going to help with that problem).

The removal or avoidance of individual accountability or ownership in many places: developer contributions that aren't understood by the person submitting them; loss of ownership and accountibility in work ("I asked Claude to...", "I worked with Claude to...", "Claude decided to...", "I don't know, Claude did it..."); destruction of trust between colleagues.

[1] https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...