Slop-Free AI Programming

Karl Zylinski describes how Claude's verbose comments overwhelmed his review process and led him to accept code he didn't fully understand in his Odin library Karl2D, so he adopted strict CLAUDE.md rules: no comments in generated code, imperative procedural style, and no commits or pushes without explicit instruction. He argues AI has encyclopedic knowledge but no taste, recommends hand-writing architecture and reviewing changes as separate commits, and estimates roughly 5x speedup for new code with these rules versus 20x for unchecked vibecoding.