New guy gets a task: "Add a thing to the thing". One liner. Simple enough.

Commits code written by chatGPT to an unrelated branch, proudly screenshots the resulting screen and posts to work chat - "My first task!! What is next?"

I don't think I want to work in this field anymore.

Yup, I'm with @retoor.

If he can modify/explain it, I wouldn't even be worried about it being from chatGPT

@retoor Agreed. I've been putting on brakes at work with AI for juniors, because if they don't understand what the LLM is doing in the code, it will be really bad for them in the long term. I want them to really understand what they are doing and be conservative with just trusting AI-generated code.

One shouldn't just blindly accept LLM code as good enough. I press it to provide better options and always modify it to make it more readable by humans. Recently I had to fix so much shit code generated by an LLM...

@retoor I have used Claude extensively with Angular and ColdFusion (vomit), because I don't care for learning the inner workings of those frameworks. So yes, use it for working with unfamiliar stuff such as languages, especially if the documentation is shit and there's nobody else to help you out.