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For 2 years, I felt like a fraud. I couldn't stop building with AI. It was addicting, exhilarating. The power. With the help of AI I could do things that I was otherwise incapable of doing.

It was new and fun and exciting and....shameful. I felt embarrassed.  I felt like I was pretending to be something I was not, and that everybody knew it and was judging me.

I was also certain that nobody was ever going to use the things I was building because they would assume that because it was created by AI that the code would be crap and full of vulnerabilities.

And I was pretty sure they were right.

But I stuck with it. I kept using AI and I kept learning more and more about how to use it properly and I learned more about code management and automated checks.

And then I paid a real human expert to review one of my WordPress plugins, and that's when it all changed.

After his initial review, he rated my plugin a C+, and told me that it was better than probably 80% of plugins out there. I addressed the things in his report, paid for a followup review, and was upgraded to an A-.

I addressed the things in the followup review, and haven't paid for a second followup review so, I'll have to settle for an A- rating for now.

But man, a C+ right out of the gate, top 20% of plugins with regards to code quality and security, and an A- after one round of updates?

Talk about a confidence boost! This WordPress plugin is officially NOT AI slop. 

Literally the same day this happened, I was inspired and purchased nomoreslop.com with the intent of sharing what I've learned with the vibe coding community so that together we might squash this idea that all AI coded apps are slop and not to be taken seriously.

— James Welbes, developer and reluctant security student