News Microsoft's CEO reveals that AI writes up to 30% of its code — some projects may have all of its code written by AI

[Admin]

Satya Nadella revealed that AI writes as much as 20% to 30% of the code in Microsoft's repositories and projects.

Microsoft's CEO reveals that AI writes up to 30% of its code — some projects may have all of its code written by AI : Read more

 

[das_stig]

and 0% on quality control !

 

[-Fran-]

This speaks more of the quality of the developers they have for important things at Microsoft.

Regards.

 

[jlake3]

And it shows.

 

[Eximo]

Doesn't explain the silly UI changes, I hope.

I spent about 20 minutes trying to find a single setting in Outlook the other day. Even the Microsoft page on it was outdated, it got me there, but it was frustrating. Also to know that Microsoft knows this is confusing and has a page dedicated to it.

Couldn't find the about page to see what version of Outlook was running. On newer visual themes it is under settings, under general. On older themes it is under Account for some reason, completely outside the settings menu. Even after finding it, it did little to help me track down what I should be looking for, as apparently version matters less than what the default theme was when Outlook was installed.

There are basically three visual interfaces for Outlook (desktop) floating around, and the web version of course, and they have certain menu options in completely different menus/sub-menus. Sometimes on the ribbon, sometimes only in the options menu. There are two main different ways that the options menu can be accessed.

Windows is going down the same track, but I am actually somewhat hopeful that they retire control panel so that I can stop re-discovering that a setting has moved.

 

[COLGeek]

Given history, I'm not so sure this is something to be proud of/bragging about.

 

[BFG-9000]

I remember AMD once bragged that their latest microarchitecture would be mostly designed using automated tools rather than time-consuming manual hand-optimization of layout. The result was Bulldozer and we all know how that turned out. They had no choice but to turn the clocks way up but it still wasn't competitive with Sandy Bridge.

 

[helper800]

I hope I am hallucinating...

 

[CelicaGT]

Two words.

"Package Hallucination"

Turns out LLM written code isn't yet the golden goose it'a made out to be.

 

[TerryLaze]

As it stands, AI is mostly there to power repetitive, data-heavy, and predictable tasks, which would yield a noticeable gain to corporate efficiency by cutting down on entry-level jobs.

Meh, instead of having some intern/low level coder miss-type a bunch of data you get an automated process to input it all without mistakes.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Seeing this makes me think back to the Bulldozer days of AMD when they said the majority of their archetecture was computer designed instead of human, which led to a large amount of waste (up to 50% I think) of die space as well as other inefficiencies, which is one of the reasons that when they hand designed the Zen 1 archetecture it was able to have an immediate 50% performance improvement.

I imagine the same thing is present in AI written code that isn't refined by senior human developers, probably many unnecessary lines and unoptimized code being used resulting in a performance penalty. Companies like Microsoft are probably taking that AI code that used to be done by junior members and refining it, but that's going to lead to a big issue if they don't continue to have junior members who know what they're doing to take the place of retiring seniors.

 

[txfeinbergs]

Meh, instead of having some intern/low level coder miss-type a bunch of data you get an automated process to input it all without mistakes.

Except there are mistakes. A whole lot of them. I have to delay my updates for months to let (other) end users beta test the Windows 11 patches before I risk applying them to my machine. It has never been this pathetic.

 

[TerryLaze]

Except there are mistakes. A whole lot of them. I have to delay my updates for months to let (other) end users beta test the Windows 11 patches before I risk applying them to my machine. It has never been this pathetic.

Different thing though, windows updates are none of these "repetitive, data-heavy, and predictable tasks,"

 

[Amdlova]

30% less jobs...

 

[ekio]

Can you ask AI to fix Windows awful design like backslashes directories starting with a dumb letter when the unix/linux system can call their disk any name they want making the possibilities trillions of times greater.
Can you get rid of the crappy regedit that is gross and badly designed?
Can you freaking finish your UI look transition that 10 years later is an half assed job ???

So incompetent.

 

[John Jackson]

Better that the other 70%.