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There must be something really seriously wrong at Microsoft. I can understand that Windows patches are complex and that they might break some of those crazy things people are running on their machines. But how is a bug that is killing access to the C:\ drive able to get through testing? WTF are they doing?
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.
Seriously?!?! 😲
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.
Or worse: AI is doing the QA as well
"Code Testing" = QA
What QA? Microsoft's QA was always the CEO demoing the latest repository head on stage.
They at least used to be embarassed by a live BSOD.
We're doing the QA.
They don’t need testing because they tell the ai to not make any errors
my boss loves AI and he uses it for everything. he made some stats graphs and summaries, and he was bragging how he got AI to make them errorless: he tells it to check for errors and makes it swear it's accurate... while we were looking at a graph where the y column numbers were all fucked up
And then the LLM says something like "You're absolutely right, there was an error in that code that is clear and obvious now it has been pointed out and despite the fact you gave the instruction to make no errors. Is there anything else I can help with?"
... and they'll be too blind to take that as the warning it is and continue to ask even more of the LLM.
It's Microslop. This is what's wrong. Also, that they fired too much of the testing staff in favor of (user-)testing rings.