Beyond Slop Grenades

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke recently shared his perspective: AI makes it easier to generate software, but it can also produce what he calls "slop grenades."

• AI-generated emails nobody reads.
• AI-generated code nobody checks.
• Polished output that creates more work than it eliminates.

We've been sensing a similar paradigm. A model can generate a beautiful new page in minutes. But if it ignores your brand, uses the wrong components, breaks established patterns, or creates something your team can't maintain, someone still has to sort it out.

The output got faster. The work didn't necessarily get easier. And that got us thinking about another shift in the LLM landscape, moving beyond what a model can do on its own, toward how intelligence can be composed into the software we build. A shared understanding of how an organization wants its digital experiences to work.

Our belief is that as new models emerge, context can become richer, too, capturing more of an organization's brand, design, content, architecture, and rules. Not a bigger prompt. Not another layer of instructions to copy and paste. A living system that can be extended, queried, and built upon by whatever comes next.

That's one of the things that excites us about Handoff. We're not trying to predict which model or interface wins. We're working on the shared foundation that lets organizations make use of what keeps emerging. And we're eager to see how the community experiments as models continue to evolve and what we can learn from building alongside them.