- Imports packages that don't exist - Uses placeholder functions that do nothing - Leaks patterns from JavaScript, Java, Ruby into Python - Leaves behind dead code and duplicates - Uses mutable default arguments
I built sloppylint to catch these "AI slop" patterns before they hit production.
pip install sloppylint
sloppylint .
It detects 100+ patterns across categories:
- Hallucinated imports (20% of AI imports reference non-existent packages)
- Placeholder code (`pass`, `...`, `TODO`)
- Wrong-language patterns (.push(), .equals(), .forEach())
- Mutable defaults, bare excepts, dead codeThis isn't a replacement for traditional linters - it catches the specific mistakes AI makes that humans wouldn't.