[Majromax]

> I may be crucified for asking this but: is there any proof that slop matters beyond our sensibilities as developers?

That's precisely what this benchmark tries to quantify. Since the benchmark incrementally expands the scope of each problem, 'sloppy' code is code that is hard to later modify.

I know this firsthand: the dumbest coder I've ever worked with was 'myself six months ago'. That jackass never keeps the documentation up to date and hard-codes things that ought to be exposed as configuration.

The SlopCodeBench is an important but early-stage probe in this direction.