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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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1. ben_w ◴[] No.42736792[source]
> 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 remember being a junior nearly 20 years back, a co-worker someone asked me how I'd implemented an invulnerability status, and I said something equally stupid despite knowing perfectly well how I'd implemented it and there not being any consumer grade AI more impressive than spam filters and Office's spelling and grammar checking.

Which may or may not be relevant to the example of your friend's coworker, but I do still wonder how much of my answers as a human are on auto-complete. It's certainly more than none, and not just from that anecdote… https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=enjoy+your+meal+thanks+you+to...