alt Hacker NewsAnd so it begins.
I don't believe they had a choice though, sticking to hand written code would be backwards and eventually meaningless as people would just submit generated code as "handwritten", the coding models are quickly becoming capable enough for this.
I wonder what it means copyright wise though. To what degree is the code even copyrightable if it's entirely generated, even if you review and provide feedback.
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My predictions for genAI code in F/OSS projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203613
1. Companies will revert to closed-source and cease contributions to F/OSS projects. Their legal team will advise them that trade secrets are the only way to protect LLM-generated code.
2. Contributors to F/OSS projects, and developers who run them, will falsely claim authorship of the code written by LLMs.
I think most communities tackling this issue, or at least the open source ones, work on a honour basis for determining if a project is LLM based or not.