alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft in 2025: We fired a bunch of engineers and mandated AI usage. 90% of our code is now generated by AI.
Also Microsoft in 2025: Record setting bugs and anti-features released.
Case study in code quantity is not equal to code quality.
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slekker • today at 5:52 PM
To add they want to rewrite Windows in Rust with AI, which I can only assume they hope will keep the software quality up but I doubt it
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The relation is tangential at best. Microsoft's management was a personification of corporate rot for a long while now, AI or no AI.
They view Windows as a straw to suck users into their higher value products through, and are seemingly unaware of what "UX" is, or how their decisions affect it. Which is how Windows 11 ended up being such a clusterfuck.