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Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

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490 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 23:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | 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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alluro2 ◴[26 Jun 25 01:04 UTC] No.44383294[source]▶
A friend experienced a similar thing at work - he gave a well-informed assessment of why something is difficult to implement and it would take a couple of weeks, based on the knowledge of the system and experience with it - only for the manager to reply within 5 min with a screenshot of an (even surprisingly) idiotic ChatGPT reply, and a message along the lines of "here's how you can do it, I guess by the end of the day".

I know several people like this, and it seems they feel like they have god powers now - and that they alone can communicate with "the AI" in this way that is simply unreachable by the rest of the peasants.

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1. latexr ◴[26 Jun 25 14:08 UTC] No.44387589[source]▶
> and a message along the lines of "here's how you can do it, I guess by the end of the day".

— How about you do it, motherfucker?! If it’s that simple, you do it! And when you can’t, I’ll come down there, push your face on the keyboard, and burn your office to the ground, how about that?

— Well, you don’t have to get mean about it.

— Yeah, I do have to get mean about it. Nothing worse than an ignorant, arrogant, know-it-all.

If Harlan Ellison were a programmer today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-kiU0-f0cg&t=150s

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2. alluro2 ◴[26 Jun 25 16:35 UTC] No.44388978[source]▶
Hah, that's a good clip :) Those "angry people" are really essential as an outlet for the rest of us.