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Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

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490 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 23:26 UTC | HN request time: 1.731s | source
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JonChesterfield ◴[26 Jun 25 00:02 UTC] No.44382974[source]▶
Interesting. Harder line than the LLVM one found at https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#ai-generated-cont...

I'm very old man shouting at clouds about this stuff. I don't want to review code the author doesn't understand and I don't want to merge code neither of us understand.

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compton93 ◴[26 Jun 25 00:15 UTC] No.44383040[source]▶
I don't want to review code the author doesn't understand

This really bothers me. I've had people ask me to do some task except they get AI to provide instructions on how to do the task and send me the instructions, rather than saying "Hey can you please do X". It's insulting.

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andy99 ◴[26 Jun 25 00:29 UTC] No.44383112[source]▶
Had someone higher up ask about something in my area of expertise. I said I didn't think is was possible, he followed up with a chatGPT conversation he had where it "gave him some ideas that we could use as an approach", as if that was some useful insight.

This is the same people that think that "learning to code" is a translation issue they don't have time for as opposed to experience they don't have.

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a4isms ◴[26 Jun 25 00:58 UTC] No.44383252[source]▶
> This is the same people that think that "learning to code" is a translation issue they don't have time for as opposed to experience they don't have.

This is very, very germane and a very quotable line. And these people have been around from long before LLMs appeared. These are the people who dash off an incomplete idea on Friday afternoon and expect to see a finished product in production by next Tuesday, latest. They have no self-awareness of how much context and disambiguation is needed to go from "idea in my head" to working, deterministic software that drives something like a process change in a business.

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1. bobjordan ◴[26 Jun 25 01:27 UTC] No.44383411[source]▶
You can change "software" to "hardware" and this is still an all too common viewpoint, even for engineers that should know better.