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Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

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491 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 23:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | 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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guappa ◴[26 Jun 25 13:11 UTC] No.44387097[source]▶
My company hired a new CTO and he asked chatgpt to write some lengthy documents about "how engineering gets done in our company".

He also writes all his emails with chatgpt.

I don't bother reading.

Oddly enough he recently promoted a guy who has been fucking around with LLMs for years instead of working as his right hand man.

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JonChesterfield ◴[26 Jun 25 13:14 UTC] No.44387118[source]▶
That's directly lethal, in a limited sympathy with engineers that don't immediately head for the exit sort of fashion. Best of luck
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1. guappa ◴[26 Jun 25 13:49 UTC] No.44387408[source]▶
The most experienced people quit, yes. There's some other not as experienced who are left, but seeing how a noob with less seniority and a large ego is now their boss, I expect they're proof reading their CVs as well.

I think under current management immigrants have no chance of getting promoted.