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Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

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Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

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30% of new code, or of all existing code?

The way he phrased it, it's existing code, though he doesn't say it's by AI. From the article: “I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,”

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I’m a daily user in a corporate environment of Outlook, MS Teams, Sharepoint etc.

MS Teams is using 1200 MB of RAM when it starts running. Skype for Business used less than 180 MB, same functionality.

Outlook is completely unusable at 1366x768 resolution (which only shows up when you use your laptop while traveling!)

I predict that soon you’ll see some large corporations publicly switching to other solutions; the path MS is on which neglects these kinds of problems, will be a natural progression.

Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

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No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". A guy like Nadella doesn't accidentally say software instead of AI. He knows exactly what he is saying. Considering that most of their software has been developed for decades and AI assistants have only started becoming useful in the last ~4 years it would…

And not only that, but how much vagueness and weasel-wording can he pack into one sentence?

"I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software".

> He knows exactly what he is saying

Very much so. He's plainly pulled those figures out of his arse, keeping it vague so he can't be blamed later for lying, for nothing more than "look how much we use AI" marketing purposes.

Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

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No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". A guy like Nadella doesn't accidentally say software instead of AI. He knows exactly what he is saying. Considering that most of their software has been developed for decades and AI assistants have only started becoming useful in the last ~4 years it would…

Ya, I'ma go ahead and flag this. What trash journalism.

Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

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No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". A guy like Nadella doesn't accidentally say software instead of AI. He knows exactly what he is saying. Considering that most of their software has been developed for decades and AI assistants have only started becoming useful in the last ~4 years it would…

> No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software".

Ouch, this makes the headline not sinply inaccurate. It makes the headline false.

Having generated code is nothing new. Multiple companies I worked for in the past had a lot of automatically generated code for multiple things (from automatically generating tests for API contracts to automatically generating glue code between different modules/services).

Callong that "AI" borders on the level of malicious ignorance.

Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

#47

No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". A guy like Nadella doesn't accidentally say software instead of AI. He knows exactly what he is saying. Considering that most of their software has been developed for decades and AI assistants have only started becoming useful in the last ~4 years it would…

> No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". Ouch, this makes the headline not sinply inaccurate. It makes the headline false . Having generated code is nothing new. Multiple companies I worked for in the past had a lot of automatically generated code for multiple things (from automatically generat…

>Ouch, this makes the headline not sinply inaccurate. It makes the headline false.

To be fair, Hanlon's razor suggests it was most likely written by someone who _would_ conflate software with AI. Though knowing the reward structures in '''journalism''', it could still be deliberate.

Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

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No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". A guy like Nadella doesn't accidentally say software instead of AI. He knows exactly what he is saying. Considering that most of their software has been developed for decades and AI assistants have only started becoming useful in the last ~4 years it would…

Ok, we've replaced AI with software in the title above. Thanks!

Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

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No, he doesn't say that. He said that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". A guy like Nadella doesn't accidentally say software instead of AI. He knows exactly what he is saying. Considering that most of their software has been developed for decades and AI assistants have only started becoming useful in the last ~4 years it would…

I would say that most mainstream software projects have a significant amount of code that has been generated by software. IDE new project wizards, Rails, Django, NextJS, create-react-app, etc. are all software that generates code.

Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

#50
If this is true (it isn't) then no wonder the web version of PowerPoint was so shit when I was forced to use it earlier today. Constant lag, random buffering popups, janky element snapping that can't be turned off...

I hate Google just as much, but at least their web office suite just works on the rare occasion I need a collaborative document.

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