> 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. 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.
A lot of companies are going to discover in 2025. Also, a major product company is going to find LLM-generated code that might have been trained on OSS code, and their compliance team is going to throw a fit.