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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Luke James

'Slopfix' software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65%

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A software house (if you can call it that) known as 'Slopfix' has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work and getting paid according to how much code it deletes. Its three engineers agree to a line-reduction target before starting, with a stated example of whittling a 100,000-line project down to 35,000 while maintaining the same functionality. The best part? Slopfix uses AI coding agents itself to do the trimming.

According to its website, Slopfix analyzes its clients' repos for free and walks away if it decides it can't make a dent. When it does take a job, the first step is a written inventory of what the application does, screen by screen and endpoint by endpoint, effectively doubling as a regression checklist before any changes are made. Clients keep the slimmed-down codebase, that checklist, and a set of guardrails meant to slow future bloat, including a CLAUDE.md instruction file, lint rules, and CI checks. A two-week warranty covers any issues that arise from a previously working component.

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