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Microsoft's CEO just said maybe 30% of their code was written by AI... And all I could think was "yeah, fucking runs like it."

Between Electron apps and this nonsense, 64GB won’t be enough for Excel in 3 years.

(Not the Excel workbooks that should be databases, I mean the 10kb ones with 1 table and a few equations.)

:laughs in Linux + LibreOffice:

That's what happens when you need software creep to keep your product relevant.

(Who am I kidding - the product is not Office, but Office's users.)

Genuinely I don't know how they've managed to take a word processor that used to open in about a second or so on a Pentium 233 on windows 95, and make it into the bloated mess it is today, opening slower on hardware several magnitudes more powerful

Every project I've worked on in the past decade or so has cared about not regressing on NFRs around performance for the user. I do not understand how a tech company the size of Microsoft has let one of its flagship products get bungled so badly. It's not like the IE6 days where they were complacent—Google Docs & open source projects such as libreoffice are very much eating into their main customer base right now.