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It's going to come out that there's AI in the code. And the code testing was done by AI, who gave the buggy code the green light.

They don’t need testing because they tell the ai to not make any errors

It's Microslop. This is what's wrong. Also, that they fired too much of the testing staff in favor of (user-)testing rings.

It's not as bad as that time they permanently deleted user documents and photos.

See they had this trick where if you didn't have enough space on your drive to unpack an update, they'd just move your shit to OneDrive temporarily, then move it back when the update was done. Only they forgot to move it back, and lost it. Oops.

My company is starting to roll out having AI both put up PRs AND give code reviews.

I would not be surprised to hear Microslop is doing the same thing and having horrible results.

Amazing what happens when you try to turn your talent pool into lifeless casino monitors.

It's more like the old adage but extended: "To err is human, to really foul things up you need a computer, but to make an unbelievable mess you need an AI."

I think I'm affected because I can't access the C: Drive.

I'm using Debian, btw.

Seems like your pc isn't affected because you don't have a C drive? Try create a C drive and see if there's an issue.

Who are we kidding that number is outdated at this point. Probably 40% now given the increase in ridiculous bugs.

They aren't capable of doing that.

Source on that is me, I worked for MSFT during the rollout of Windows 8 and the 360 red ring nightmare.

They're internally wayyyyy too culty and cliquey.

Everyone has to do things the MSFT way, and the MSFT way is team leads all leading their own thing and arguing about why its so cool and necessary.

The culture is diametrically opposed to simplifying things and reorienting around a fundamentally minimized, more stable core system.

Everything has to be able to plug into as many other things as possible, which creates insane nested dependency loops and chains that they fuck up all the time.

Great idea, I'll ask Copilot to do that

It’s hilarious that the issues people think Linux has, like for example the disk deleting itself, are exactly what happens on Windows lol.

No longer do you have A: as a floppy drive, now it's C: as a sloppy drive

You know what's going on inside the large companies that are hoping to cash in on the AI thing? All workers are being pushed to use AI and goals are set that targets x% of all code written be AI-generated.

And AI agents are deceptively bad at what they do. They are like the djinn: they will grant the word of your request but not the spirit. Eg they love to use helper functions but won't necessarily reuse helper functions instead of writing new copies each time it needs one.

Here's a test that will show that, with all the fancy advancements they've made, they are still just advanced text predictors: pick a task and have an AI start that task and then develop it over several prompts, test and debug it (debug via LLM still). Now ask the LLM to analyse the code it just generated. It will have a lot of notes.

An entity using intelligence would use the same approach to write the code as it does to analyze it. Not so for an LLM, which is just predicting tokens with a giant context window. There is no thought pattern behind it, even when it predicts a "thinking process" before it can act. It just fits your prompt into the best fit out of all the public git depots it was trained on, from commit notes and diffs, bug reports and discussions, stack exchange exchanges, and the like, which I'd argue is all biased towards amateur and beginner programming rather than expert-level. Plus it includes other AI-generated code now.

So yeah, MS did introduce bugs in the past, even some pretty big ones (it was my original reason for holding back on updates, at least until the enshitification really kicked in), but now they are pushing what is pretty much a subtle bug generator on the whole company so it's going to get worse, but admitting it has fundamental problems will pop the AI bubble, so instead they keep trying to fix it with bandaids in the hopes that it'll run out of problems before people decide to stop feeding it money (which still isn't enough, but at least there is revenue).