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by rocketbop 1213 days ago
This is probably obvious for a developer, but it will happen as it might not be obvious to everyone in the company.
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> This is probably obvious for a developer

I have come across large chunks (200+ lines) of a former employer's proprietary source code on StackOverflow a couple times. It was always from the same team/functional area, so it may have been tacitly accepted by the immediate management. Or, more likely, the team valued fixing code as fast as possible over actually thinking about what you are doing.

Basically, if there are developers willing to dump proprietary source on SO, there are developers willing to dump the whole codebase into ChatGPT.

Or they were staffed by SWE I and II's with no/limited leadership or support.
what top secret revolutionary innovation is 200 lines long?
> This is probably obvious for a developer

No. Not in the slightest.

Given the number of people who are pasting their code into ChatGPT and asking it to help debug it, I'm not sure that developers are properly aware of that... that's even setting side the "sending internal code to an unapproved external service."