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// AI SLOP SCANNER

ModernGrindTech

Catch bad code before it ships.

Dev sent you a snippet? Pasted something from ChatGPT or Copilot? 22 heuristics flag the telltale signs: narrating comments, try/catch soup, fallback stubs, TODO phantoms, function names that describe what the code already shows. Runs in your browser. Nothing leaves the page.

22 heuristicsJS / TS / Python / GoNever leaves browser

// PASTE CODE

Nothing scanned yet.

// WHY THIS EXISTS

AI codes fast. Most of it is garbage.

The tells are consistent: comments that restate the line below them, try/catch blocks around operations that can't fail, TODO markers that should be code, fallback values for cases that don't exist, utility functions that wrap one line of built-in behavior. Each one is a 2-second fix in isolation. Stacked across a codebase, they turn 400 lines of real work into 4,000 lines of unmaintainable fluff.

This scanner runs the same pattern checks MGT uses when taking over inherited codebases. It's not a linter, it's a taste detector. A high slop score means the author shipped quantity, not code.

If you're reviewing a snippet from a dev before merge, paste it in. If you're getting AI-generated patches from a junior or a vibecoder, paste those too. The heuristics catch patterns that surface-level code review misses.

// INHERIT A MESS?

Run a full-codebase audit.

MGT audits inherited codebases line-by-line, outputs a prioritized cleanup list, and can execute the cleanup against a fixed price. Most audits run $1,500-4,000 flat.

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