> you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago
Absolutely. There is a limit to how much code can be shared on stack overflow and, in the pre-AI days, code snippets had to be understood well enough to integrate into a larger hand crafted work.
Furthermore, stack overflow code is shared by consenting users and is licensed per the terms of service, unlike AI generated code which is trained on non-consenting users and is both ethically and legally dubious.
Absolutely. There is a limit to how much code can be shared on stack overflow and, in the pre-AI days, code snippets had to be understood well enough to integrate into a larger hand crafted work.
Furthermore, stack overflow code is shared by consenting users and is licensed per the terms of service, unlike AI generated code which is trained on non-consenting users and is both ethically and legally dubious.