alt Hacker NewsEither they're using GenAI or the entire team collectively lost their minds and started getting a huge number of colossally bad ideas about fundamental primitives of Windows that hadn't changed for decades. Backwards compatibility used to be the major concern and now it feels like they didn't even know what would break ahead of time. If that doesn't feel like GenAI then I don't know what does
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marcosdumay • today at 3:17 PM
Keep in mind that Microsoft laid-off a large share of their developers shortly before and during the interval the GP talks about.
Repeatedly.
You are right that's one or the other. Probably both are contributing.
Believe it or not, I find it more plausible that the entire team collectively lost their minds — or more specifically, the leadership. There's a long and sordid history of such things that goes back well before GenAI.