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Stackoverflow is the same: use the code if you understand it. But with AI I have the fear people won't take the time to understand the code - copy, paste and it's done, after all it comes from AI!

How maintainable is software that was not fully understood when it was built? When it breaks in 6 months because some api changed. I guess the solution will be to get AI to fix it ... Sigh.

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Industrial-scale copy-pasta is definitely a concern I have around LLMs, though in practice I'm not sure it'll actually be _so_ much worse than it is now. Consider, for instance, one team that aims to have good test coverage and productive code reviews, and one that doesn't, and assume that on both teams there are some developers who carelessly copy-paste whatever the LLM spits out. I suspect that the first team will still end up doing pretty well, whereas the latter will get more terrible. So one outcome might be a greater delta between teams these two types of teams, with the takeaway being that in the new AI world, practices around code testing and reviewing are more important than ever.

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