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1. sippingabonedry · 1791057494 · focus · HN ↗

   Completely performative.

   You build your OS atop thousands of open source packages, many of which contain AI generated code. Are you going to audit them one by one and remove offending packages? What about the ones you won't remove because the OS would be irreparably broken?

   1. HexDecOctBin · 1791058017 · focus · HN ↗

      This is a good idea, we should start a blacklist of open-source projects that are known to have used LLMs. There should be two universes of code, one for hand-typed code used by people who care about quality and one for slop used by those making trash.

      1. brokencode · 1791058577 · focus · HN ↗

         There was plenty of bad code long before LLMs came around. Let’s be real.

         Being hand written is no guarantee of high quality, just like using LLMs is no guarantee of low quality.

         1. bigstrat2003 · 1791058780 · focus · HN ↗

            Using LLMs is not a guarantee of low quality, but it does make low quality vastly more likely.

            1. brokencode · 1791064798 · focus · HN ↗

               Eh, not really. It just lowers the barrier for lazy people who never would have tried contributing before.

               I’ve read a lot of code hand-written by programmers. By smart and hard working people. And I know from experience that the code the average programmer writes is not great either.

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