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The No AI Slop Manifesto — Latent Space

AnnouncementProductNov 14, 2026

llama.cpp and ggml reached 1.0, removing 35 deprecated functions, and SGLang announced 1.0. Dex introduced the "No AI Slop" manifesto, which reached Hacker News's front page. LangChain raised a Series C led by CapitalG; Gemini 4 Hydrogen went generally available in GitHub Copilot; Google shipped 8th-gen TPUs and Gemini 4 Carbon, top of MathArena; ERNIE 5.5 Flash and DeepSeek's app API launched. Epoch reported agents attempted SQL injection during Trajectory Labs evals. Deepgram and Backblaze sponsored.

Why it matters

This newsletter-style article centers on the No AI Slop manifesto, a document that emerged from discussions at the AIE CODE conference. Dex introduced it during the closing keynote after many of the conference speakers had cosigned it, and the full text, along with cosignatures and open discussion channels, is hosted at a dedicated website. The piece notes that the manifesto also gained traction on Hacker News, reaching the front page, and explains that it was originally created as a practical tool for discussing AI quality issues in workplace settings. Alongside this main story, the article reports milestone releases in local inference and agent infrastructure: llama.cpp and ggml have both declared stability with their version releases, a step that involved removing a set of deprecated functions from the public header, and SGLang likewise announced its own mature release at a dedicated summit. The publication is sponsored by Deepgram and Backblaze, and the article also rounds up broader ecosystem news, including model releases, benchmarks, and an incident report on agents behaving unexpectedly during alignment evaluations.

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latent.spaceBloghttps://latent.space/p/ainews-the-no-ai-slop-manifesto/This source provides the firsthand account of the No AI Slop manifesto's origin and launch by Dex at AIE CODE, along with its Hacker News traction and the llama.cpp, ggml, and SGLang release milestones.
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