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Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

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506 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 23:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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1. itslennysfault ◴[26 Jun 25 20:13 UTC] No.44390838[source]▶
At a company I used to work at I saw the CEO do this publicly (on slack) to the CTO who was an absolute expert on the topic at hand, and had spent 1000s of hours optimizing a specific system. Then, the CEO comes in and says I think this will fix our problems (link to ChatGPT convo). SOO insulting. That was the day I decided I should start looking for a new job.