Comment by stringtoint

Plenty of developers paste arbitrary bash commands posted on sites like GitHub without thinking because they look "legit", I suppose. I see it similarly as you do: StackOverflow (and Copilot) can be helpful to start but it's.

Had an exchange like this some time ago:

Me: Hey, I'm reviewing your PR. Looks pretty fine to me. Except for this function which looks like it was copy-pasted from SO: I literally found the same function in an answer on SO (it was written in pure JS while we were using TS in our project).

Dev: Yes, everyone copies from SO.

Me: Well, in that case I hope you always copy the right thing. Because this code might run but it is not good enough (e.g. the variable names are inexpressive, it creates DOM elements without removing them after they are not needed anymore).