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Some things to expect in 2025

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258 points signa11 | 2 comments | 16 Jan 25 22:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.628s | source
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kirubakaran ◴[17 Jan 25 00:45 UTC] No.42732804[source]▶
> A major project will discover that it has merged a lot of AI-generated code

My friend works at a well-known tech company in San Francisco. He was reviewing his junior team member's pull request. When asked what a chunk of code did, the team member matter-of-factly replied "I don't know, chatgpt wrote that"

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gunian ◴[17 Jan 25 03:28 UTC] No.42733790[source]▶
the saddest part is if i wrote the code myself it would be worse lol GPT is coding at a intern level and as a dumb human being I feel sad I have been replaced but not as catastrophic as they made it seem

it's interesting to see the underlying anxiety among devs though I think there is a place in the back of their minds that knows the models will get better and better and someday could get to staff engineer level

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1. jahewson ◴[17 Jan 25 03:58 UTC] No.42733917[source]▶
ChatGPT needs two years of exceeds expectations for before that can happen.
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2. gunian ◴[17 Jan 25 04:24 UTC] No.42734062[source]▶
I been writing at troll level since i first got my computer at 19 so it looks like exceeds expectations to me lol