Some things to expect in 2025

> 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"

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.

Where I work we are actively encouraged to use more AI tools while coding, to the point where my direct supervisor asked why my team’s usage statistics were lower than company average.

It's not necessarily the use of AI tools (though the license parts are an issue), is that someone submitted code for review without knowing how it works.

I think we should / have already reached to a place where AI written code is acceptable.

The problem is that "AI" is likely whitewashing the copyright from proprietary code.

I asked one of the "AI" assistants to do a very specific algorithmic problem for me and it did. And included unit tests which just so happened to hit all the exact edge cases that you would need to test for with the algorithm.

The "AI assistant" very clearly regurgitated the code of somebody. I, however, couldn't find a particular example of that code no matter how hard I searched. It is extremely likely that the regurgitated code was not open source.

Who is liable if I incorporate that code into my product?