AI slop has fundamentally changed how I experience reading.
I now notice the tells everywhere. The short, punchy sentences. The relentless groups of three. The em dashes—the unnecessary little asides.
And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
The worst part? My brain now flags
My @vercel internship: Codex, async video, batch support on AI Gateway. And I turned the terminal into an arcade for agents:
▪︎ Challenge models in 3D ASCII, no GPU
▪︎ Build with the open source game engine
Install → npm i -g ascii-arcade
Explore → ascii-arcade.dev
Each day ~10 million deployments are made on Vercel, with 2.35 billion made to date.
Vercel is one of the most heavily multi-tenant systems in the world. Billions of application deployments co-exist and are accessible ('routable') on our CDN at any given moment.
Underlying our
