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by nerdponx 733 days ago
The flipside is that the AI-written code I've seen at work is usually painfully obvious upon human code review. If you need a tool to detect it, either it's good AI-written code, or you have particularly inept code reviewers.
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boredpudding 733 days ago
Be careful here about confirmation bias. If you only spot 10% of the AI-written code, you'll still think you see all of it, because a 100% of the ones you spot are indeed AI-written. And the 10% you see, will indeed be painfully obvious.

The ones you don't notice aren't obvious.

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nerdponx 732 days ago
That's fair.

It depends on why you care about AI-written code.

At the code review stage, we care mostly that the code is good (correct, readable, etc). So if the AI-written code passes muster there, then there's nothing wrong with it being "AI-written" in our eyes.

If you care about AI-written for the sake of preventing AI usage by your developers, then I think it's already impossible to detect and prevent.

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