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De-slop at generation time
Use the lesson to respond to this: "An engineer is drowning in agent-generated PRs and asks how to keep review quality up without reading every line. What layered approach do you recommend?" Keep the answer plain.
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De-slop at generation timethe layered pre-PR pipeline
Cursor's own engineers run a de-slop skill consistently at generation time, before code reaches a PR. It evaluates model-written code and removes the typical AI slop: generic variable and function names, verbose throwaway comments, overengineering and unnecessary abstraction, bad boilerplate, then standardizes style. It's published on Cursor's public marketplace as a reusable skill, so it's a real, dogfooded example, not a hypothetical.
Stack it and you get a layered pre-PR quality pipeline: de-slop at generation → your review skill / BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. before the PR → human review of a clean diff. Each layer is cheaper than the one after it and each one means the human reviewer spends scarce attention on intent and risk instead of renaming data2 and deleting comments a model left behind.
The strong answer to 'how do you keep quality up at 10-100x code volume?' is layered controls moved earlier, not heroic human review. Name the stack: de-slop at generation, a review skill or BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. before the PR, then humans reviewing a clean diff and a tight summary. The mental model: review, not generation, is the new bottleneck, so you invest tooling exactly there.
Bonus credibility: a review skill and the de-slop skillA shared Cursor skill that strips typical AI-generated tells (filler comments, vague names, over-engineering) and applies house style. Press Enter for the full definition. are the same primitive (skills) you'd use to encode any team standard, and both are buildable today, one on Cursor's public marketplace.