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Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Now I understand why at each windows 11 update, they introduce more bugs than ever

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Windows hate train looks fun, but as someone who works in the industry, most of that code is probably just unit tests and boilerplate stuff.

Copilot is decent at quickly writing huge amounts of mostly correct, tedious unit test code, depending on your language/framework. And since Microsoft works with languages like C# and .NET for their native apps, and likely backend too, there is quite a bit of verbosity that Copilot can take care of. Also, documentation might count as well.

No real code is AI-generated. He's just saying shit like this to keep idiot investors happy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'd guess it's mostly the AI autocomplete stuff. I.e. you keep on typing until the AI guesses it right then press tab to save keystrokes. LLMs are really bad at making test cases in my experience; they, ironically, can't do the simple but nuanced computations needed to figure out what the output should be given the inputs, or to recognize and test the edge cases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh yeah it can't do anything complicated, only on simple modules. And I usually give it pretty detailed instructions on my expected I/O. It just converts a few sentences of English to dozens of lines of code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Thanks for the context

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t that the problem tho. He’s the CEO of Microsoft which is supposed to be a bight end technology firm saying bullshit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Operations are one thing, but investors are another. The latter don't know the sector, but they want profits.

So you have to convince them not to interfere with your activities, because they can make things worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I appreciate this explanation. But it doesn’t make it right, does it?