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Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35627632

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This was happening before this “AI” craze.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

10 years ago it was copy/pasting from stack overflow

[–] deezbutts@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

AI is just this with extra steps

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 5 months ago

SO gives you very specific, small examples. GenAI will happily generate entire projects, test suites etc. It's much easier to get caught into the fantasy that the latter creates.