> Yeah it doesn’t really seem different from people copy/pasting from stack overflow without reading through it.
It is vastly different because there are no (as far as I've ever seen) multi-thousand line blocks of code to cut & paste as-is from stack overflow.
If you're pasting a couple dozen lines of code from a third party without understanding it, that's bad, but not unbearable to discover in a code review.
But if you're posting a 5000 line pull request that you've never read and expect me to do all your work validating it, we have a problem.
What I mean is that, at least where I’ve worked, copy/pasting from SO without checking it and taking responsibility for it was already not acceptable. Making a machine generate it instead of a human is… still not acceptable.
It is vastly different because there are no (as far as I've ever seen) multi-thousand line blocks of code to cut & paste as-is from stack overflow.
If you're pasting a couple dozen lines of code from a third party without understanding it, that's bad, but not unbearable to discover in a code review.
But if you're posting a 5000 line pull request that you've never read and expect me to do all your work validating it, we have a problem.