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Research Notes: AI Code Generation and the Confidence Problem

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A Z Mackay
Aug 16, 2025
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The Starting Question

Why would Samsung engineers, working on proprietary semiconductor code, paste their work into ChatGPT? Not once, but three separate times in a single month. This wasn’t a hypothetical risk or a security researcher’s proof of concept. This actually happened in April 2023, at one of the world’s most security-conscious tech companies.

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