Wall Street Journal 2026-05-22-3
WSJ/Mims — 'Vibe Slop Crisis': 75% AI-generated code at Google, GitHub policy response, and the IPO-window verification arbitrage
Pichai says 75% of Google's new code is AI-generated, up from 50% six months ago; Claude Code's median user went from 20 minutes a day to 20 hours a week. GitHub changing its policies to fight AI-generated coding garbage in the same week the Zechner/Ronacher critique surfaces in WSJ isn't coincidence — it's practitioner alarm graduating to institutional press at exactly the OpenAI/Anthropic IPO moment. The market is pricing generation; the cliff it hasn't priced is verification.