Slang & Culture
Slop grenades
AI-generated work — long emails, documents, code or summaries — that a person produces quickly with AI and passes along to colleagues without checking it, creating extra work for whoever receives it. The example Shopify's CEO gave: sending an unnecessarily long AI-written email that the recipient has to run through another AI model to summarize.
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Used by Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke in a September 2026 interview on "The Knowledge Project" podcast, describing a term people at his company use for AI output tossed between coworkers: "We call those 'slop grenades' that people toss at each other." The interview was covered by Business Insider. He presented it as an established in-company term, not as his own coinage.