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Government spyware finally has a challenger for the title of "primary reason that most Microsoft software runs like hot garbage".
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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So the CEO is trying to tell investors that they are saving money by not paying employees. But to me it sounds more like: we are letting our sub-par products continue to enshitify, and any other company using AI to program will be equal competition.
I think he's trying to say that their AI writes code good enough for Microsoft. Which is a message to other business leaders that your company too can benefit from copilot, just hand over your credit card!
Microsoft has absolutely gotten worse in the consumer space, but that isn't really their business these days.
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this makes way more sense than hundreds of shitty devs.
Even their AI crashes all the time, its brutal.
this is why I get so much business as a IT consultant lol
We know Microsoft.
Hardly possible not to noticce..
“Written by software” does not inherently mean AI.
I vaguely remember talk about companies like Google having software that fixes/writes code and that was ages before LLMs.
Well that explains a lot
Boy am I glad not having to touch their software.
Year of the Linux desktop
(Amusing sidenote: my autocomplete's first suggestion after 'Linux' was 'propaganda'.)
Sure as hell feels like it!
Everybody saying this is why their products are shit are really confusing me. It's not like Microsoft just started being terrible. They've been terrible for a real long time. Way before AI was a thing. This is just a symptom of Microsoft's awfulness not a reason for it.
Ok, it's like this.
Ms used to release shitty stuff. And they'll continue to release shitty stuff except now it'll be 30% more shitty.
The AI is not the reason their software is bad, but their software is bad for the same reason they’re claiming to use AI to write it.
There were alpha versions of windows 8 with less glaring/annoying bugs than windows 11, though
My windows 11 gaming machine has done all manner of fucky stuff, including permanently losing desktop icons seemingly at random and just whole ass refusing to open the file explorer for six months.
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And 100% of their product names are generated by AI. No human would be stupid enough to change something's name for zero reason.
No human would be stupid enough to change something’s name for zero reason.
Well, unless you're a product manager at Google apparently... Though with them you're lucky if its just a change of name rather than it becoming an entirely "new" thing, or just getting outright axed...
coughs
That's why their products are so crappy!
What? There products have long been shit ever before AI was even a thing.
Anyone remember windows ME? I sure as fuck do.
No way, they get their results through honest effort. Anyone can make crappy AI products now, but Microsoft have been doing crappy products the hard way for decades. Don't downplay their hard work !
50% of my code is written by Intellisense...
If they start with those products today with zero marketing budged and zero user base nobody would use it. Those CEOs are just clowns.
Even worse, whenever a good new technology does pop up they buy it and ruin it.
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.
Thanks for the context
Isn’t that the problem tho. He’s the CEO of Microsoft which is supposed to be a bight end technology firm saying bullshit
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.
Yikes
Code written by software doesn't mean AI unless you ignore compilers
Executives lie to boost profits and justify their decisions, I doubt MS execs even know how much of their code is AI generated just like the ad sales company exec they were talking to in the article
This makes sense and would explain the mainline windows versioning and probably the xbox versioning too!
Microsoft to AI: List all the integers from one to eleven.
AI: 3. 95. 98. 2000. XP. Vista. 7. 8. 10. 11.
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