Comment on NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I literally did an interview that went like this:

  1. Applicant used copilot to generate nontrivial amounts of the code
  2. Copilot generated the wrong code for a key part of the algorithm; applicant didn’t notice
  3. We pointed it out, they fixed it
  4. They had to refactor the code a bit, and ended up making the same exact mistake again
  5. We pointed out the error again…

  And that’s in an interview, where you should be extra careful to make a good impression…

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• neclimdul@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not specific to AI but someone flat out told me they didn’t even run the code to see it work. They didn’t understand why I would or expect that before accepting code. This was someone submitting code to a widely deployed open source project.

  So, I would expect the answer is yes or very soon to be yes.

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• best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Around me, most beginners who use that don’t have the skills to understand or even test what they get. They don’t want to learn I guess, ChatGPT is easier.

  I recently suspected a new guy was using ChatGPT because everything seemed perfect (grammar, code formatting, classes made with design patterns, etc.) so I did some pair programming with him and asked if we could debug his simple application. He didn’t know where the debug button was.

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  • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Guilty as charged, ten years into the job and I never learned to use a debugger lol.

    Seriously though that’s amazing to me I never met one of those… I guess 95% of them will churn out of the industry in less than five years…

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Debug button? There is a button that inserts 'printf(“%s:%s boop! \n" , FUNCTION, LINE) ;”

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