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GenAI code transparency and council to exchange anonymized GenAI usage stats

We're working on GenAI code transparency- understanding how much GenAI is in codebases, and how / where it's used.Would welcome thoughts on two things:A. if folks care / do not care / have other reasons to care about this topic besides the ones below.B. if there's interest in joining a free council to exchange anonymized stats on GenAI code usage.Cheers.A. why care about GenAI code...

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i appreciate the thoughtfulness of this thread very much... obviously, defintely hit a nerve.

and I agree with everything that's been said. i've been talking with a couple different banks (across the US) and they all are sharing the same concerns, whether their systems are VB6 or newer.

i'm with a group of machine learning and software maintenance folks who are trying to build tools to make refactoring/ migration/ speedups easier. if anyone is curious, we'd love to get feedback on the tools, see if they might help in similar situations, or could be improved.