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Combat AI slop.
AI made polish free. This is how to tell a tested decision from a beautiful one, and how to make any AI stop flattering you.
Combat AI Slop · part 5 · 25 September 2026
How to roast your own idea in an hour
Six questions, in a fixed order, that make any AI stop flattering your business idea and start testing it. Prompts included. No product required.
Ratings on public evidence
Decisions in the news, rated.
Meta: Muse, the agent that shops for you
25 September 2026 · rated on public evidenceTesla: the $50,000 Roadster deposit
25 September 2026 · rated on public evidenceDeepSeek: the 4.5x price rise
25 September 2026 · rated on public evidenceAmazon: closing Mechanical Turk
25 September 2026 · rated on public evidenceGoogle: the hacking test that left the sandbox
25 September 2026 · rated on public evidenceY Combinator S26: agent infrastructure as a category
25 September 2026 · rated on public evidenceGoogle: the $899 Googlebook
25 September 2026 · rated on public evidenceEvery rating grades how well the decision was tested, not whether it will succeed. The Standard explains the scale.
Your idea
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