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New aislop v0.10.1: better real-code accuracy. Fixed Python complexity detection and cut TypeScript false positives. Read the story →

Guides and deep dives.

How-to guides, pattern breakdowns, and project updates.

Release · reads

aislop v0.7.0. Config inheritance, public score badge, security floor

extends: lets project configs inherit a parent and override only what they need. The public score badge puts your live aislop score in any README. A postcss security floor closes the only vulnerability aislop's own scan flagged on itself.

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Engineering · reads

If your function needs 80 lines, your agent gave up. If your file needs 400, it never started.

If your function is more than 80 lines, your agent is doing something wrong. If your file is more than 400, same story. We found a 981-line component in the wild.

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Essay · reads

You shouldn't be writing comments. And if you do, it should have a reason.

Our pair-programming AI added ~70 narrative comments to our own source during the 0.5 rehaul. Our own tool caught every one. If the tool builder needs the rule, you probably do too.

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Engineering · reads

Agents add. They don't subtract. That's the bug.

Agents add. They don't subtract. The chrome-extension repo went 9 to 68 to 88 almost entirely on dead code removal. Orphan imports. Unused exports. Half refactored functions the agent forgot to delete.

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Pattern Guide · reads

The top 10 AI slops we see everywhere

The ten patterns AI agents produce at scale, ranked by how much damage they do. Each one maps to an aislop rule so you can catch them before you ship.

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Engineering · reads

What 25 real projects taught us about aislop 0.5

Before tagging aislop 0.5 we ran it against 25 real projects from our own backlog. Here is what broke, what got fixed, and why we moved destructive fixes in-house.

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aislop v0.6.0. Agent hooks for Claude, Cursor, Gemini, and six more

Findings flow back to the agent on the turn it wrote the code. Runtime adapters for Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini. Rules-only installers for six more. Structured feedback contract, quality-gate mode, sentinel-guarded writes.

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aislop v0.5.0. New CLI, own AST fix engine, stable output, better experience

The release where we stopped blindly trusting external fixers with destructive cleanup, wrote our own AST engine, and made aislop fix produce zero phantom diffs on clean repos.

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aislop v0.4.0. Agent Handoff, Smarter Fix, Better Scoring

aislop v0.4.0 ships agent handoff for 14 coding agents, a fix pipeline that leaves clean files alone, and scoring that treats formatting as warnings not errors.

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Tutorial · reads

How to Add a Quality Gate to Your AI-Assisted Pipeline in 5 Minutes

One GitHub Actions step. One score threshold. Every PR from every agent held to the same bar.

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