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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: 0.243s | 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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DowsingSpoon ◴[17 Jan 25 03:19 UTC] No.42733737[source]▶
I am fairly certain that if someone did that where I work then security would be escorting them off the property within the hour. This is NOT Okay.
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1. userbinator ◴[17 Jan 25 05:16 UTC] No.42734331[source]▶
In such an environment, it would be more common for access to ChatGPT (or even most of the Internet) to be blocked.