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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: 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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1. dehrmann ◴[17 Jan 25 04:01 UTC] No.42733942[source]▶
Ah, yes. The good old "what idiot wrote this?" experience.
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2. Ntrails ◴[17 Jan 25 14:08 UTC] No.42737636[source]▶
Don't forget the revelation 2 weeks later when you realise immediate past you should've trusted deep past you instead of assuming he'd somehow got wiser in the intervening months.

Instead intermediate past you broke things properly because they forgot about the edge deep past you was cautiously avoiding