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fighting slop with slop

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We haven't done a code review in two years. The last time I read every line of code in a PR was about six months ago. And we build a programming language with a runtime meant to replace V8. This is real engineering: compiler internals, runtime behavior, type systems, codegen, concurrency semantics, and FFIs across multiple languages. The thing that makes this possible is a technique we call "fight slop with slop" - every line of code is analyzed in depth by a sprawling toolchain of custom visualizers, linters, test snapshots and a whole bunch more. While the core language VM code has super high standards, a lot of these meta-tools are mostly vibe-coded. I'll dive deep into all the tactical things we've built, and how to adopt "fight slop with slop" in your own team

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fighting slop with slop ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 3:20pm-3:40pm - Track/room: Software Factories · Main Stage - Speaker(s): Vaibhav Gupta - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Software Factories - Room: Main Stage - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description We haven't done a code review in two years. The last time I read every line of code in a PR was about six months ago. And we build a programming language with a runtime meant to replace V8. This is real engineering: compiler internals, runtime behavior, type systems, codegen, concurrency semantics, and FFIs across multiple languages.

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