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.

To be fair I don't think someone should get fired for that (unless it's a repeat offense). Kids are going to do stupid things, and it's up to the more experienced to coach them and help them to understand it's not acceptable. You're right that it's not ok at all, but the first resort should be a reprimand and being told they are expected to understand code they submit.

Kids, sure. University trained professional and paid like one? No.

You're having high expectations of the current batch of college graduates

(and honestly it's not like the past graduates were much better, but they didn't have chatgpt)

A cynical take would be that the current market conditions allow you to filter out such college graduates and only take the better ones.

And how do you propose filtering them out? There's a reason why college students are using LLMs, they're getting better grades for less effort. I don't assume you're proposing selecting students with worse grades on purpose?