Re:The Programmer Identity Crisis
by pfannkuchen on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:27AM
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Yeah it doesn’t really seem different from people copy/pasting from stack overflow without reading through it. This isn’t really a new thing, though I guess nobody was really acting like SO was the second coming so it’s probably happening more now.
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> Yeah it doesn’t really seem different from people copy/pasting from stack overflow without reading through it.
It is vastly different because there are no (as far as I've ever seen) multi-thousand line blocks of code to cut & paste as-is from stack overflow.
If you're pasting a couple dozen lines of code from a third party without understanding it, that's bad, but not unbearable to discover in a code review.
But if you're posting a 5000 line pull request that you've never read and expect me to do all your work validating it, we have a problem.
Re:The Programmer Identity Crisis
by pfannkuchen on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:22PM
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What I mean is that, at least where I’ve worked, copy/pasting from SO without checking it and taking responsibility for it was already not acceptable. Making a machine generate it instead of a human is… still not acceptable.