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New devs' code looks like ChatGPT wrote it if it had been trained on pre-existing parts of the codebase. Copy pasta eeeverywhere :p


For this specifically, is no different than when StackOverflow was the go-to solution.


Worse maybe. I used to be able to tell when someone was using SO because everyone was blindly copying the same email regex answer. You can carry Mixtral in on a personal computer and transcribe novel output now. It’s so much harder to detect from just looking at a PR.




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