Working the Slop Mines¶
Delivered at ToorCamp 2026 on Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM Pacific in the Prime Dome.
This 50-minute talk looks at what happens when difficult technical work is increasingly delegated to machines without ego, taste, or restraint. The practical center of the talk is SDLC hardening for organizations facing generative AI output from developers, operations teams, users, bug bounty programs, and executives.
Themes¶
- Building development pipelines that can absorb and route AI-generated output instead of pretending it will not arrive.
- Structuring review, triage, and operational workflows around rapidly shifting machine-assisted behavior.
- Exploring autonomous incentive structures, zero-knowledge execution proofs for bug triage and feature development, and new human-computer interaction models.
- Thinking about how these tools can empower individuals and the communities they care about.