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Some things to expect in 2025

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258 points signa11 | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 22:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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christina97 ◴[16 Jan 25 23:42 UTC] No.42732390[source]▶
> A major project will discover that it has merged a lot of AI-generated code, a fact that may become evident when it becomes clear that the alleged author does not actually understand what the code does.

Not to detract from this point, but I don’t think I understand what half the code I have written does if it’s been more than a month since I wrote it…

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WaitWaitWha ◴[16 Jan 25 23:59 UTC] No.42732523[source]▶
I am confident that you do understand it at time of writing.

> We depend on our developers to contribute their own work and to stand behind it; large language models cannot do that. A project that discovers such code in its repository may face the unpleasant prospect of reverting significant changes.

At time of writing and commit, I am certain you "stand behind" your code. I think the author refers to the new script kiddies of the AI time. Many do not understand what the AI spits out at time of copy/paste.

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ozim ◴[17 Jan 25 00:41 UTC] No.42732777[source]▶
Sounds a lot like bashing copy pasting from StackOverflow. So also like old argument “kids these days”.

No reasonable company pipes stuff directly to prod you still have some code review an d QA. So doesn’t matter if you copy from SO without understanding or LLM generates code that you don’t understand.

Both are bad but still happen and world didn’t crash.

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BenjiWiebe ◴[17 Jan 25 00:55 UTC] No.42732862[source]▶
LLM can generate a larger chunk of code then you'll find on SO, so I think it's a larger issue to have LLM code then copy-pasted SO code.
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1. seanw444 ◴[17 Jan 25 03:37 UTC] No.42733833[source]▶
I also think that it would be a nightmare to properly review a large PR of exclusively AI code. If you take the time to understand what it's doing, and find as many little bugs and edge cases as possible, you may as well have just written it yourself.