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NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code (mastodon.sdf.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.) but the code was very wrong. 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Debug button? There is a button that inserts 'printf("%s:%s boop! \n" , __FUNCTION__, __LINE__) ;'?