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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: 1.059s | 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. kstenerud ◴[17 Jan 25 06:12 UTC] No.42734578[source]▶
I can always understand code I wrote even decades ago, but only because I use descriptive names, and strategic comments to describe why I'm using a particular approach, or to describe an API. If I fail to do that, it takes a lot of effort to remember what's going on.