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Some things to expect in 2025

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kirubakaran ◴[17 Jan 25 00:45 UTC] 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 ◴[17 Jan 25 02:15 UTC] 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. Vampiero ◴[17 Jan 25 08:58 UTC] No.42735441[source]▶
No, a real engineer goes on SO to understand. A junior goes on SO to copy and paste. If your answer is "I don't know I just copied" you're not doing any engineering and it's awful to pretend you are. Our job is literally about asking "why" and "how" until we don't need to anymore because our pattern matching skills allow us to generalize.

At this point in my career I rarely ever go to SO, and when I do it's because of some obscure thing that 7 other people came across and decided to post a question about. Or to look up "how to do the most basic shit in language I am not familiar with", but that role was taken over by LLMs.