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kirubakaran ◴[] 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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Taylor_OD ◴[] No.42733357[source]
This is more of an early career engineer thing than a ChatGPT thing. 'I don't know, I found it on stackoverflow' could have easily been the answer for the last ten years.
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1. mrweasel ◴[] No.42735217[source]
There's nothing inherently wrong with getting help from either and LLM, or StackOverflow, it's the "I don't know' part that bothers me.

One the funnier reactions to "I got it from StackOverflow" is the followup question "From the question or the answers?"

If you just adds code, without understanding how it works, regardless of where it came from and potential licensing issues, then I question your view on programming. If I have a paint come in and paint my house and get paint all over the place, floors, windows, electrical socket but still get the walls the color I want, then I wouldn't consider that person a professional painter.