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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

This week's decisions, rated.

Meta: Muse, the agent that shops for you

25 September 2026 · rated on public evidence

RESHAPE

Tesla: the $50,000 Roadster deposit

25 September 2026 · rated on public evidence

GREEN LIGHT

DeepSeek: the 4.5x price rise

25 September 2026 · rated on public evidence

GREEN LIGHT

Amazon: closing Mechanical Turk

25 September 2026 · rated on public evidence

KILL

Google: the hacking test that left the sandbox

25 September 2026 · rated on public evidence

RESHAPE

Y Combinator S26: agent infrastructure as a category

25 September 2026 · rated on public evidence

RESHAPE

Google: the $899 Googlebook

25 September 2026 · rated on public evidence

RESHAPE

Every rating grades how well the decision was tested, not whether it will succeed. The standard explains the scale.