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VentureBeat · 01/07/2026 18:00 EDT

Right now in the AI world, there are a lot of percolating ideas and experimentation. But as far as Replit CEO Amjad Masad is concerned, they're just "toys": unreliable, marginally effective, and generic. “There's a lot of sameness out there,” Masad explains in a new VB Beyond the Pilot podcast. “Everything kind of looks the same, all the images, all the code, everything.”This "slop," as it’s come to be known, is not only the result of lazy one-shot prompting, but a lack of individual flavor. “The way to ove

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