Tom Zika has a list and starts with AI-generated code:
This one didn’t exist three years ago. Now it’s the first thing I look for.
To be clear, I’m not anti-AI. If the AI wrote clean code, I probably wouldn’t even notice. The red flag isn’t that AI generated it – it’s the patterns that give it away. I recently saw a real case where someone needed to update a set of values. Simple enough, right? Here’s what the AI-generated solution did:
Click through for a laugh, as well as several other red flags.