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from Wispy2891@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 06:20
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Now I understand why at each windows 11 update, they introduce more bugs than ever
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Power move by the zucc by first asking how much genai is used at Microsoft then refusing to answer his own question at Facebook đ
I hope that thatâs inclusive of something like lines of documentation in comment lines.
Would be interesting to see how they measured that metric. Are they tagging individual lines as AI generated?
What those lines are too would be interesting, AI as auto complete is less dangerous than complete generation, but probably also less useful.
Most probably Microsoft has set objectives for how much LoC are from LLMs and developers invented numbers to match that metric (because they probably have things more important to do than counting LoC)
AI as auto complete is exactly what I was thinking.
Iâve seen lots of cases where AI appears as an auto complete suggestion and I can just hit <TAB> and it finishes the current line. Itâs essentially filling in the boilerplate text. Heck in some cases it isnât even right, but itâs close enough that I can change a few values.
I also want to point out that this isnât particularly new technology. This existed before AI. It has perhaps expanded more, but it isnât a revolutionary improvement, itâs an incremental one. So when we talk about usefulness, I think it is actually more useful.
Now if it could do all the magic planning and thinking, that would be more useful, but weâre not there yet.
Horseshit.
The current state of code generated by AI is sketchy at best. I often get plain wrong answers because the model tries to derive. It comes up with calls to functions and properties that just do not exist.
âYou are right, I made a mistake. Here is a better answer.â Continues to give wrong answers.
Apart from that, apps that are glued together from AI generated code are not maintainable at all. What if there is a bug somewhere and you so not comprehend what is actually happening? Ask AI to fix it? Yeah good luck with that.
I do use AI for simple questions, and it works fairly well for that, but this claim by MS is just marketing bullshit.
This ^
â20%-30% of code inside the companyâs repositoriesâ
Now, if they had said â20%-30% of code written in the past 6 monthsâŚâ I might buy that.
The repositories are going to have all the current codebase, likely going back years now. AI generated code is barely viable at this point and really only pretty recently.
No way 1/3rd of all current codebase is AI.
Even 20% of new code would be a stretch unless they count every first iteration of code written by AI that needs to be replaced by a human later because it was plain wrong.
Maybe theyâre counting the six iterations of code it gives me as I tell it whatâs wrong with each one.
20% of code = 20 lines of production code.
They mean new code, as per the article. And they mean code gen and IntelliSence
âPlease move all comments from in-line to the line above, and add a separator lineâ
They say that because they are selling it.
And yeah, my experience is the same. The most frustrating is when writing in a typed python, and it gives answers that are clearly incorrect, making up attributes that donât even exist etc.
My brother said his superior asked him to use more AI auto complete so that they can brag to investors that X percent of the companyâs code is written by AI. This told me everything about the current state of this bullshit.
Ah but it was nice for a minute imagining microsoft vibe coding windowsâŚ
It would explain the constant barrage of system breaking bugs and RCE vulns
Turns out they have been using AI for decades.
I didnât RTA, but if they mean ALL code at MS, that just canât be true. They have legacy stuff going back decades, beyond just their windows platform. Thereâs no way 30% of all their code is replaced or newly created by AI.
The exact same wrong answer. Co-Pilot is especially bad for that. Iâm practically giving up using it outside of vs code because the actual copilot AI is dog shit stupid m
âAuto complete generated 30% of charactersâ
Fixed it.
To be fair, the AIâs not wrong. Itâs probably better, but just a teeny tiny bit so.
Honestly, AI is like a genie - whatever you come up with heâll just butcher and misinterpret so you start questioning both your own sanity and the semantics of language. Good thing these genies have no wish limit, but bad thing that they murder rainforests while generating their non-sequitur replies.
This is my experience. It can be useful for simple things that used to be found with a web search before AI slop broke things. For example, I was having trouble getting a simple CGO program for a POC to communicate with the main Go process. This should have been solvable easily with documentation but the CGO docs are pretty bad and sample code was near impossible to find due to AI slop in the search results. GPT was able to provide the needed sample code to unblock me.
I bet theyâre counting code written while someone had an AI plugin installed as âwritten by AIâ and I bet that accounts for almost all of that 30%. On top of that, Iâm betting that they made it mandatory to have such a plug in, and the other 70% is just code written before they mandated this.
Also, having 1/3 lines with obvious code that can be auto suggested correctly would make sense, but that is hardly code âwritten by aiâ in the way they suggest.
Iâd guess a lot of the people writing the code donât even have it turned on, itâs just installed because management said it had to be, because management wants to be able to tell investors theyâre âinnovating work flowsâ.
Every few months I turn it on for a few days just to see if it is better.
Then I go back to the old AST based autocomplete that actually knows something useful about my code.
I am a small sample to confirm thatâs exactly the reason in my brotherâs company.
And in my company weâre pressured to make X prompts every week to the companyâs own ChatGPT wrapper to show weâre being productive. Even our profit shares have a KPO attached to that now. So many people just type âHello thereâ every morning to count as another interaction with the AI.
Those are the easy time savings though, the safe easy stuff the developer doesnât have to worry about anymore. (Giving them time do the gnarly stuff)
It is exactly the opposite, with simple, predictable auto-complete you didnât have to worry about that anymore, with LLMs you always have to look at it in detail because every little thing could be just plain completely different and wrong.
I can read way faster than I can type though. You still check it, but itâs pretty good as that kind of stuff once you have an example for it to follow.
Reading code is usually orders of magnitude slower than writing code. Sure, typing might be slower than reading but to check if it is what you intended you have to understand it too.
Well, Iâm generally very anti-LLM but as a library author in Java it has been very helpful to create lots of similar overloads/methods for different types and filling in the corresponding documentation comments. Iâve already done all the thinking and I just need to check that the overload makes the right call or does the same thing that the other ones do â in that particular case, itâs faster. But if I myself donât know yet how Iâm going to do something, I would never trust an AI to tell me.
Well, okay, I can see how it would be useful in languages like Java that are extremely verbose and have a low expressiveness. Writing Java pretty much was already IDEs with code generation 20 years or so ago because nobody wants to write so much boilerplate by hand.
I would be very surprised if 30% of their code lines had even been touched at all by anyone since AI coding assistants became a thing.
I could see stuff getting small changes and them claiming that the entirety of the new version is âwritten by AIâ.
I wish this shot from The Terminator had the camera showing Sarah Connerâs face instead of Reeseâs, because itâd be such an appropriate meme image on multiple levels for when someone makes a misleading claim about some current AI system.
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/c37eacf8-77d2-4758-b6ba-a0fadb5ab456.png">
Well, that would explain a lot.
Iâm also guessing that at âup to 30%â of the companyâs leadership decisions are being made by AI too.
âUp toâ can also be 0%. Why is there even a need to say âup toâ here.
So you are saying up to 100% of their code is written by AI?
Up to 100% of all Windows code was written by a Macaque monkey on meth.
So you are saying up to 100% of all Windows code is Mac code?
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Honestly, Iâm not surprised.
He used the words âwritten by softwareâ. This is ambiguous and doesnât mean AI, for example, using annotations for variables and generating the getters and setters would count. Right click and create function body for interface function definitions also.
Theyâre exaggerating to pretend their AI is more useful than it is.
Intellisense in visual studio has also been really good for over a decade. Which is technically also written by software and not me.
I mean, really good intellisense is a great improvement, but itâs not replacing devs any time soon.
People have been using annotations to generate code since I rode my dinosaur to work.
Donât forget code generation for stuff like bindings or database schemes
??? No itâs not! Can investors sue because this is such an obvious lie? Pls I have 0.3 Microsoft shares
Are they including code generated to test their own models capability maybe?
So this explains why Microsoft Swiftkey is total dogshit now. Also why the Outlook app barely works.
Its unbelievable.
I used to be able to swipe freely on SwiftKey, and now I canât really do it without being extra careful and mindful of not spelling the wrong thing. Idk what Microsoft did to the product but I wouldnât call it an improvement.
I think the article weâre looking at here isnât really hyperbolic. They got AI to write all their code and broke the Keyboard.
Just FYI, if you can live without swipping, I recommend FUTO keyboard., it is basically Swiftkey but it actually works and doesnât come with Microsoftâs spyware built in.
Itâs what I use now, and Iâm really happy. Donât be fooled by it being in Alpha, because it works flawlessly (minus the swipe, which is hit and miss).
Thanks for the suggestion, Iâll check it out
This only makes sense if they are counting intellisense auto complete as âAI writtenâ
Has to be something like that. Nadella is somehow cheating with the number, trying to keep the AI hype going.
You could say ALL of my latest scripts were written with AI. Because I often use it to get a hint or gather some boilerplate code (which I still go over and modify).
Was the auto complete in visual studio not a âtrainedâ set before the llm craze kicked off? Would not surprise me if they decided to include that.
Thatâs⌠not something to be proud of.
Eww. Maybe itâs not really true and Microsoft just wants to remind us that big corporate AI is so legit that all the software you use all day was âhelpedâ by it.
But really for me the issue is the company, not the AI. If I read an article about AI generated code making it into the Linux kernel or some gnu/kde/etc utilities, I donât think I would worry much because those changes will be reviewed by cranky old nerds who care about the functionality of the software first. I have no such confidence in Microsoftâs processes.
Well, that explains Windows 11.
Yeah thatâd explain some stuff. Happy to have switched to Linux
Same. My games even run faster.
Iâm still forced to use Microsoft Outlook and teams, unfortunately, and boy oh boy is it bad.
Yesterday i spent 45 minutes of a 1,5 meeting (that would have been 45 minutes) on trying teams to please try and use the right microphone, please share a screen (not working under Firefox or chrome now, apparently)
I canât wait for the day that I have some time to get us off that dog shit
Weird
Oh, there it is
Feature exclusive, huh!
Outlook is pretty damned bullet proof, Teams, OTOH, is a fucking mess. I can see IT wanting to keep everything in the same ecosystem, thatâs perfectly sane, but Iâm certain Zoom can be setup to honor AD credentials. We set it to use Google SSO.
Ha, yeah my Outlook will randomly just not be able to connect to server when starting up. This is from fresh boot every day, some days it just canât, have to reboot and then it works! Fucking brilliant, they managed to break email.
which one ?
I love that Outlook occasionally fires up one of its keyboard shortcuts and clears your entire email you were typing if youâre not paying attention.
Fucking love it.
And how many times was all that code rewritten?
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.
Fun fact: Nadella has been replaced with an AI agent a couple of months ago and nobody has noticed yet. âCopilot, while Iâm away, generate bs on AI adoption and fire a bunch of employees, ok?â
It shows
Beat me to it.
<img alt="" src="https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/402975da-25a9-416c-a250-192b59873dcd.gif">
That explains so much
Code written by software doesnât 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
If this were true there would massive databreaches. AI is really bad at keeping private keys private. Not to even mention the default credentials it would use because it doesnt have commen sense to change them
I disagree. It feels like your making this assumption from the point of view that people using AI to develop turn their whole brain off and let AI take the wheel. Any dev I know using AI uses it as a time saving measure, i.e. advanced autocomplete, or to assist with troubleshooting as a form of advanced search engine. Also you would have no need to give the AI the actual key itself, at most you would give it the title of the variable the key is saved as.
I find it hard to believe because I work at an adjacent company who has made similar claims and it is complete bullshit.
I do think there is some about of âAI provided a smart complete and the developer hit âtabâ to take the changesâ equalling âthis code was written by AIâ in some metrics that go to the execs. And since the execs mandated high AI use everyone is fine just saying they have high AI use regardless of how true it is.
Likely a lot of manpower were focused on that, and/or the employees rather wrote their own code then lied about the AI use (heard a lot about 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. Heâs just saying shit like this to keep idiot investors happy.
Isnât that the problem tho. Heâs 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 donât 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.
I appreciate this explanation. But it doesnât make it right, does it?
Thanks for the context
Iâd guess itâs 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, canât 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.
Oh yeah it canât 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.
They include tab complete of github copilot which is often as much as a single dot. Same thing theyâve done with all github copilot stats.
Theyâre attempting to make excuses for their inability to create functional software
Theyâre lying about using AI to write software, they probably have required all their programmers to have an AI plugin installed, and are thus counting any code they make as âwritten by AIâ, and then are counting any minor edit to existing code as the entire thing being âwritten by AIâ.
The software is bad because itâs written to serve the infinite growth imperative. The reason they claim theyâre writing code with AI is because that being true is the only hope that they have for achieving the infinite growth imperative. Itâs a con, itâs a cult, they are extracting as much value as they can before everything falls apart.
Not suprised
Thatâs why their products are so crappy!
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. Donât downplay their hard work !
What? There products have long been shit ever before AI was even a thing.
Anyone remember windows ME? I sure as fuck do.
Everybody saying this is why their products are shit are really confusing me. Itâs not like Microsoft just started being terrible. Theyâve been terrible for a real long time. Way before AI was a thing. This is just a symptom of Microsoftâs awfulness not a reason for 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.
You can install Dolphin file manager on Windows. File Explorer has sucked at least since Windows 11 was released.
Iâm just saying, itâs the most basic program there is for a user-friendly OS, how do you launch to market with a fucked up file explorer? And nah, weâre going to Linux once they start pushing windows 12.
Why wait?
Mostly because when I switched my personal machine, there were a few small, weird issues with everything from not being able to do multiplayer on indie games to the grass, and only the grass as opposed to everything green, being blue in Baldurâs Gate 3. Working through those problems didnât bother me, Iâve got the gumption and patience for it, the rest of my family does not. Iâm giving the game industry a bit more time to smooth things out before I move the family gaming machine over.
Iâm waiting to make a pc upgrade and buy new storage, then Iâm switching.
Windows 11 is so terrible so far that if Iâll need to use Windows 10 for dev reasons, Iâll either pirate the extended support patches, or use a shitbox (obsolete PC for optimization purposes) disconnected from the internet. I do fear that I might have to hack a GUI onto LDB or GDB, because I got too used to RemedyBG (Iâm already using Kate).
Ok, itâs like this.
Ms used to release shitty stuff. And theyâll continue to release shitty stuff except now itâll be 30% more shitty.
The AI is not the reason their software is bad, but their software is bad for the same reason theyâre claiming to use AI to write it.
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.
50% of my code is written by IntellisenseâŚ
Yikes
And 100% of their product names are generated by AI. No human would be stupid enough to change somethingâs name for zero reason.
Well, unless youâre a product manager at Google apparently⌠Though with them youâre lucky if its just a change of name rather than it becoming an entirely ânewâ thing, or just getting outright axedâŚ
coughs
Boy am I glad not having to touch their software.
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 noticceâŚ
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.
What products do they have that are enshittifying?
Here is the definition: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Windows 11 was much much shittier, idk about the rest of their products, I havenât used them.
And I switched over to steamOS, so I wonât be using any of their products again.
You didnât read the definition, moving on
Man, chill. Break the word down.
En - Into / Become Shit - Da poo poo Fication - The process of becoming
Yes, we are in the third phase: service to user is free diving in order to increase money to M$ shareholders?
What products do they have that arenât?
You didnât read the definition, so im moving on.
You said this a lot, but you seem more like you took offence than like youâre moving on.
It comes across as you dismissing peopleâs points because they didnât debate by the rules you invented for them to speak.
Itâs not a computer science word, itâs an IT word, and Iâm afraid youâre going to have to live with people being a bit imprecise with it.
Why not link to the article coining the term? Itâs well written and explains well.
Hereâs the list of what they are enshittifying: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software
Ok so you donât know the definition, moving on
Hmm seems like he do
Imagine simping for a trillion dollar company. Lol
You look like a very fun person to spend time with (/s)
Itâs seems more that you donât really know the definition.
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Have you not noticed that the Windows search has become a meme for being really useful in windows seven and useless in newer versions because it started
And thatâs just one example thatâs obvious enough to become a meme
BTW: any form of making a Microsoft product worse for profit of Microsoft is enshittification since they have both endusers and sellers of products that only work on windows/in the Microsoft ecosystem locked in with significant costs tied to leaving.
Iâve read the article. Search, Notepad, Teams, Excel.
Outlook is stable
Thank you
Iâll agree with search, notepad (the recent ai add), and teams (since itâs literally enshittifying Skype). Not sure on excel. Excel seems pretty stable.
They started preloading it on windows start due to bloatware and corporate management bullcrap. There was an article about on lemmy a few days ago.
I think heâs 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 isnât really their business these days.
Good point
Theyâre worse in the business space too. Teams is crashing on me daily.
Teams crashed on me today too! Itâs great because it was a meeting with external people, so I had to sit in the waiting room in shame until one of them let me back in.
They are even worse in the business space for sure.
Well that explains a lot
âWritten by softwareâ 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.
Code generators being a prime and ancient example
I highlighted part of the article for you.
Sure as hell feels like it!
Year of the Linux desktop
(Amusing sidenote: my autocompleteâs first suggestion after âLinuxâ was âpropagandaâ.)
I think it might actually start coming to fruition now that a lot of games have native support.
One of the only things stopping me from taking the plunge at this point is laziness to soft through all my data and make sure what i need is backed up before firmatting (i know, i need a good backup solution; open to suggestions here)
Government spyware finally has a challenger for the title of âprimary reason that most Microsoft software runs like hot garbageâ.
This is my own experience but the past few years Windows has been extremely dependable for me and then in the last few months the updates theyâve have been terrible. Iâve seen more blue screens recently than I have in a lot of years.
All this to say that if it is 30% AI code being used then itâs very telling!
Windows was always garbage to be honest, windows 7 was the best release in my opinion. You are correct though it is way worse these past months. By the way does your mouse lag when the update notification comes up?
i had such a bad experience with 7, it was horribly unstable on a computer that had handled vista just fine. i switched to 8 as soon as i could and was better off for it.
Win98SE was my favorite. Maximum just working, minimum trying to âhelp.â
Itâs great if you donât need it to be on the network. Iâd say they didnât have networking figured out until almost the end of XPs lifespan.
Windows 7 was peak windows. Its been downhill from there
I donât remember in my 2 decades of working my work machine causing me to lose work due to a Windows update. In the last year, it happened to me 3 times. One was due to Crowdstrike. The latest update also recently broke my remote setup. Not completely their fault but still a crappy time. The one other time was due to an update (mustâve been the forced win11 one) killing the wifi and then Windows hiding any options to fix it, a bug from Windows 10.
Work for a big software company. With all the offshoring of devs, I expect most of our code is now AI. And it shows.
How does it show? (Asking for red flags, not to create an argument).
Quality degredation and Disjointed experience comes to minds. Microsofts tech is such a mess right now i dont know how they come back from it honestly. Too many competing frameworks, bad schemas, broken tooling, bad documentation.
Im not even factoring in windows 11.
I used to be a windows dev guy, but with this landscape I dunno why i would do it to myself. Developing for linux systens is such a better experience. At least there are standards and ubernerds who adhere to them.
Coming back from this is easy.
Extend support for windows 10 for another 4 years. Take a break from their OS release cycle and get the next OS right. Remove the Microsoft account mandate from sign in. Remove AI by default. Remove Ads, weather, news and other bloat from the OS. The focus should be creating the cleanest, simplest, abstraction between the user and the hardware.
Its not nearly that easy. They are dealing with personalities behind all of this, investors they made promises to, etc. What you are describing is the right thing to do, its just very complicated with a ship as big as microsoft to turn on a dime like that. The bigger the org, the slower it is to react and the harder it is to course correct
Is this why they havenât said why they one folder needs to be there. They actually donât know.
Iâm out of the loop here
Basically, there was a security flaw with Microsoftâs Internet Information Services (web server software) that could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to files and folders they shouldnât be able to (permission escalation?). Well, instead of providing an actual fix to the problem as a whole, they applied a bandaid fix by creating a new folder named âinetpubâ on peoples system drive, and apparently the presence of the folder is able to prevent the exploit from working. People noticed the folder and deleted it because they thought it was being created by an attacker, so Microsoft had to tell people not to delete it.
Wow, so my decision to switch my machines over to Linux by win10 EOL really isnât overkill.
We can tell
If they mean â30% of the code we wrote last monthâ then I might believe it. Though I bet it is not across the board but deep in one or two areas. Still, itâs a crazy number.
But he said something like â30% of the code in our repositoriesâ which would mean everything, including their entire legacy of code. And that I simply do not believe.
It wouldnât surprise me at all if they entered the entire codebase for Windows 11 into an LLM and asked it to optimize it or some shit lol
Yeah thatâs a good point.
And surprise surprise, itâs worse than ever
Funny considering windows 7 consists of exactly 0% AI generated code.
lmao I just said the same thing before reading your comment
Its a shit article with Tech crunch changing the words to get people in a flap about AI (for or against), the actual quote is
âWritten by softwareâ reasonably included machine refactored code, automatically generated boilerplate and things generated by AI assistants. Through that lens 20% doesnt seem crazy.
Iâve been âautomatically writing codeâ for a system of about a dozen modules - we specify a glue file in .json between all the modules and the code generating software makes units to go in each module to do the communication interfacing based on the glue spec. That system has been running for more than 10 years now, it writes a couple hundred thousand lines of ânew codeâ every time we modify the glue file.
The A stands for Automation, right?
My first thought on reading that is: yeah, like about 98% of the human genome is âjunk DNAâ that we have little or no idea what it might be doing. Sometimes when we cut it out, nobody ever notices, sometimes when we cut it out the system wonât boot up.
Of course itâs just bad writing, but I kind of wouldnât put it past management to try shoving their multitude of codebases through an LLM at this point.
Copilot. Piloting you towards effortless bugs, and with all the telemetry, we donât need to test our patches and updates. You, the user are doing that for us. Sincerely, Microsoft.
Is the part that handles images in word
It shows
Stole it as if I wrote it
How much of Linux is?
If you count all of my contributions, 0%.
None of my contributions have been included. I am a terrible programmer.
â30% of my pants is poopedâ
Yeah, I can tell every time I have to use that dinosaur of an OS.
Windows is 95 percent pure bloat now imo, an os just needs to handle my hardware and launch my programs anything else is just eating my resources.
I donât need any assistance from anything while my phasers and quantums arenât doing anything. I donât need AI doing anything when I finally get the proper setup for crashing a Tomcat into a big old mountain that only a fool would miss. I donât need any bloat while Iâm ripping off an old cartoon character for a D&D campaign.
Are they including stuff written by intellisence and boiler plate for legacy code?
And its all Teams.
Satya Nadella has given an evasive answer there and both Zuckerberg and the journalists have been taken in.
It is common in programming languages that have a lot of boilerplate to use code generation, where you take some information about data and generate code automatically, like code that translates data between formats (for example reading and writing xml for saving to disk or json to send over the network). Being very routine to write and easy to deduce logically from other information, this process has been automated for years and years, long before AI existed.
Microsoftâs flagship software such as operating systems, office software, is unbelievably vast and complex, far beyond the complexity of most business software, and has been developed over decades. They absolutely have not replaced 30% of their code since the very recent advent of useful AI. I can believe that 30% of it is automatically generated, but not by AI.
Does that mean that Microsoft shares are gonna crash?
Wonder how much of Windows 10 was written by Stack Exchange?