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
#2The Clippy strikes back
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#330% of new code, or of all existing code?
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#41. Has the total amount of code risen, such that the amount of human code is unchanged?
2. What's the bug rate like from AI code? is MS investing the time to check this code, or assuming it is correct?
3. Who writes the test cases?
4. 30% in what terms? number of lines of code? number of commits? what code is in play here? bulk test code, which is huge and per-line very low value, or is this serious, difficult, complex code used in critical project functions?
5. How much design work is being performed by LLM? as opposed to churning out lines of code.
6. Do the developers actually trust this code and trust LLMs for this, or is it they have a KPI they have to meet and so everyone now has "30% LLM code", all of which is pretty much useless?
Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
#5People are going to ask if this is true etc. Not understanding that is doesn't matter if it is true, or if it is rather 20%, 2% or 40%, if it is new code or else.
What matters is what "investors" and bean counters believe to be true. Not much relief in knowing that they are wrong, when you lose your job or your working conditions suddenly become much worse.
Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
#6You know, there's a really obvious, snide comment to that.
But instead I'll just say I'm curious about the next Windows edition. Traditionally it would be time for it to be the "not as terrible" one, which many currently on W11 would probably welcome with very, very open arms. Would that still hold?
Would there even be a Windows 11? (or, by MS naming schemes, Windows Series W or something)
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#7RIP Microsoft
Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
#8Given all the bugs with each update doesn’t seem to improve the quality.
Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
#9Hmm... But SN himself is not writing code or involved in day to day development. He can claim anything and his incentives are 100% aligned to claiming AI bs.
In similar development, as much as 98% AI generated code wastes my time because I need to delete or press escape to stop the auto completion because a) it is spewing code from official doc verbatim, b) risks injecting licensed code into the product and getting my employer on legal fire, c) it is wrong and exactly not what I want.
Re: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
#10Translated: same engineers are more productive by using IA.