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Stack Overflow Copiers Look Away When Juniors Marvel at Pre-AI Code
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Stack Overflow Copiers Look Away When Juniors Marvel at Pre-AI Code

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A two-part meme. Top text in quotes reads: 'I can't believe people had to write all this code before ai'. Below, the caption 'people who copied their code from stack overflow:' sits above the classic 'Awkward Look Monkey Puppet' meme - two side-by-side frames of a red-haired monkey puppet nervously glancing sideways and then at the camera. The joke skewers the myth that pre-AI developers hand-crafted everything: an entire generation built careers on copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers, making AI code generation less a revolution and more a faster clipboard

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Before LLMs we also generated code from a massive corpus of Stack Overflow - the inference step was just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V with a 2009 accepted answer
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Before LLMs we also generated code from a massive corpus of Stack Overflow - the inference step was just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V with a 2009 accepted answer

  2. Anonymous

    AI didn’t eliminate copy-paste programming; it optimized away the source URL.

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