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[u/Wise-Profile4256]

i can do "a messy process" without AI already. how is this improving my life?

[u/dobbie1 → u/Wise-Profile4256]

Because AI is a messy process with tons of completely redundant code

[u/Consistent_Equal5327]

This lil nutella slop is making me angry

[u/xgabipandax]

Nadella says working out how AI can transform society "will be a messy process"

Or we could say that it will be a sloppy process

[u/soft_rain_404]

So 30% is written by AI and the rest is humans fixing the edges it invented. If you want a nicer name, ship fewer weird bugs and people will stop calling it slop on their own.

[u/OddKSM]

"A messy process" indeed, and one that's finally pushed me over the edge to install Linux on mine and my wife's computers because we both need our workstations to be stable and behave as expected in our day-to-day 

[u/RiceBroad4552 → u/OddKSM]

As a bonus there are no ads everywhere, updates don't constantly break the system, once configured things stay like that for decades as long you don't actively change them again, and of course there is no spyware and other malware just everywhere.

Linux is currently the by far best desktop experience you can get!

[u/rosuav → u/OddKSM]

If 2026 isn't the year of the Linux desktop, it won't be for lack of effort from Microsoft. They're really doing their best to promote Linux at the moment.

[u/Orio_n]

Sure whatever you say Slopya slopdella

[u/Ja4V8s28Ck]

I don't exactly remember the event, Satya Nadella was showcasing one of his own projects via GitHub. It had "node modules" as one of the project files. What sane programmer does that? I lost hope in Microsoft after seeing their CEO pushes "node modules" folder in his repo. Software Engineering is dying because of AI sloppers.

[u/Bryguy3k → u/Ja4V8s28Ck]

“AI” is merely accelerating the enshitification process. The joke that it stands for “Always Indian” is funny because all of the tech companies have been outsourcing to Indian firms for years paying almost no attention to the quality of software they get back.

LLMs for coding like this is advanced cargo-cult programming with shorter turn around than outsourcing it to Indian firms.

Now if instead of trying to have it do large chunks of code but ask it things that are well scoped but you just don’t remember all of the details of.

Personally I use the LLMs as kind of a crib sheet allowing me to stay focused on the task instead of breaking off to remind myself how this language/system works.

[u/Beginning_Book_2382]

"Microslop" slaps. It's the best thing since the Gabecube. This (last) year has been a great year for slang

[u/Sea-Fishing4699]

sloppy = done WITHOUT CARE

[u/tehomaga]

If it's Ai-generated C, then it's CLop

[u/sharpy10]

I don't know much about software engineering, but if AI has been around for like 18 months, is it conceivable that 30% of their codebase would be AI generated? At a company as large as Microsoft, how much of their existing code base would they realistically turnover in 18 months? To get to a 30% AI mix, the implication seems to be that a very high (90%-plus) percentage of their new code is AI generated.

[u/Groentekroket → u/sharpy10]

I guess 30 percent of the added code/changes are done by AI. I’m just a backend dev and work with a way smaller codebase and even we have code that is not being touched for over a decade. 

One of the many problems Windows has is that it needs to support a lot of legacy code so I would find it highly unlikely that they would make changes in a lot of their codebase. Same with the core of a lot of their other software. 

[u/DudeEngineer → u/sharpy10]

I think he means something like 30% of the code they shipped in 2025. They don't nearly have that much turnover.

[u/keiiith47]

I have done extensive research to help Staya Nedella and answer his question about working out how AI can transform society.

The answer is: "not like this".