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title: "Payment for removing 'AI garbage': how neural networks clean code created by neural networks"
description: "A team called Slopfix has emerged that removes 'garbage' code created by neural networks for $10,000. Ironically, they use the same AI for cleaning, but under strict expert control. Godot developers have already banned such changes due to low quality."
date: 2026-07-18T13:58:28.000Z
lang: en
url: https://xab.info/en/posts/payment-for-removing-ai-garbage-how-neural-networks-clean-code-created-by-neural-networks
tags: [slopfix, godot, claud-code, ai-code, toms-hardware]
publisher: "XAB.info"
---

# Payment for removing 'AI garbage': how neural networks clean code created by neural networks

![Robot programmer analyzes code on a monitor in a lab, symbolizing the process of cleaning AI-generated garbage](https://xab.info/media/2026/07/18/oplata-za-udalenie-ii-musora-kak-nejroseti-chistyat-kod-sozdannyi-nejrosetyami/oplata-za-udalenie-ii-musora-kak-nejroseti-chistyat-kod-sozdannyi-nejrosetyami-1.webp)

The term 'AI garbage' or 'AI slop' has firmly established itself in professional jargon, referring to the flood of low-quality content generated by neural networks. However, a new service has now appeared on the market offering to fight this problem for a fee. The Slopfix team is ready to clean projects of excess code generated by artificial intelligence and charges up to $10,000 for this.

The irony of the situation is that the same tools used to create bad code are now being used to fight it. As reported by Tom's Hardware, the Slopfix team specializes in reducing the volume of AI-generated code. Their business model is built on a pay-for-results system: the reward depends directly on how successfully the specialists handle the optimization task.

### The math of code cleaning

The company's website provides a specific example of calculating service costs. If the task is to reduce 100,000 lines of code to 35,000, the team will only receive the full fee of $10,000 if they remove exactly 65,000 lines. In a situation where they manage to remove only half of the required volume (32,500 lines), the payment will be $5,000. This approach stimulates maximum efficiency.

The main tool in Slopfix's arsenal is Claude Code. At the same time, the developers emphasize that they keep the artificial intelligence 'on a very short leash.' The three specialists on the team claim to have thirty years of combined experience in understanding what maintainable code should look like. According to them, the AI agent has no say, and all key decisions remain with humans.

### The crisis of 'vibe coding'

One of the main problems of modern 'vibe coding' is not so much the final result as the instability of further development on such a codebase. AI agents often produce a preferred result for a specific task but are unable to 'think' about the next steps. As a result, the code becomes filled with duplication and inefficient solutions, creating the phenomenon of 'AI slop.'

This problem has become so acute that major developer communities have begun to take strict measures. Just a few months ago, the team behind the popular PlayStation 3 emulator asked users to stop sending 'garbage AI code.' The situation was also exacerbated in the open-source Godot engine community, which was literally drowning in such changes earlier this year.

Last month, Godot developers went further and stopped accepting AI-generated code altogether. The reason was that they could no longer trust active AI users, believing that they do not understand their code and are unable to fix it properly.

### Market prospects

Cleaning AI code can certainly facilitate further work for AI agents and make projects more stable. However, this service does not solve the fundamental problem: users still do not understand exactly what code they are getting in the end. The question of whether clients will want to pay tens of thousands of dollars to another team to use the same tools to clean their codebase remains open, and time will tell.