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I disagree. Microsoft had been doing just fine at making completely awful and broken products before AI coding was a thing.
by madamelic 6mo ago
I disagree. Microsoft had been doing just fine at making completely awful and broken products before AI coding was a thing.
- miyoji 6mo agoYes, exactly. AI isn't some magic dust that you can sprinkle into your workforce and get more productivity and better results. It is at best a force amplifier for what you already have. If you're making awful and broken products, you will make even more awful and even more broken products at a higher rate than before. It's not a coincidence that every impressive result done using AI has come from someone with a track record of impressive results before AI. AI isn't magic. It doesn't make you good at stuff you're bad at.
- bombcar 6mo agoMicrosoft had a very specific niche of making completely awful software that wasn't actually broken - in fact, that was often the infuriating thing. If it just shat the bed completely, you'd have an easy argument to replace it with something else; instead, it would be technically competent (Hi, Raymond!) but covered in stuff that made it infuriating to use (Hi, Redmond!), especially if you didn't live in it day in and day out.
- bmitc 6mo agoThe .NET team is a counter example, aside from the GUI situation.
- 6031769 6mo agoHomer: There's three ways to do things: the right way, the Microsoft way and the AI slop way. Bart: Isn't that the Microsoft way? Homer: Yes, but faster!