Ask HN: Should the term "cognitive surrender" apply to writers who publish slop?

Writing is thinking. I don't think this is an especially disputed claim.

Every day we on HN (along with every other social medium) are treated to largely generated think pieces from presumptive thought leaders. Sometimes there's more evidence of human fingerprints on the ideas at issue, and sometimes it's clear that wading through the slop will yield nothing new, interesting or useful.

Addy Osmani's blog (and substack) is the clearest example of this. Here's someone who has multiple books published under his name - pre-LLM! Now his online properties are a total morass of slop - complete with a painfully self-aggrandizing slop biography celebrating its subject as nothing short of a shaper of the modern Internet.

What it doesn't seem to have is any original thoughts, just the same recycled trash about the best way to build with agents and how we're in a new normal. Dull as dishwater and half as practical. In a bruising bit of irony, "Osmani" even falsely took credit for the term "cognitive surrender" in a recent post.

Bigger picture: I am concerned that the "culture" - such as it is - is not normalizing the things that will serve us well in the future.