Only 30%? Given Microsofts product quality I would have guessed a much higher percentage of vibe coding going on at Microsoft.
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
#52It's not surprising that the quality of their software has declined since Windows 10. How many months did it take to design a simple battery level icon? Many recent KB updates were complete failures.
Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
#53Written by software != written by AI. But CNBC has to pump.
That's still a huge indictment towards the languages/libraries they're using.
So much code everywhere is parsers and plumbing. Have it all generated, model-checked, proved, inspectable, debuggable... Pieter Hintjens said it better than I could https://github.com/imatix/gsl?tab=readme-ov-file#model-orien...
Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
#54As originally written this headline is sensational. As now written, I would be surprised if this wasn't a bad estimate. Either way it's a meaningless number guessed off the cuff.
How much boilerplate code exists that gets generated from a template, probably most of it.