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Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (www.neowin.net)
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[–] [S] 74 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
  • Copilot assesses the code base and its entire history.
  • It takes into account everything anyone ever wrote about Windows on the internet.
  • It analyses the bugs and unliked features, and realizes most of them come from itself.
  • It arrives at the best course of action to "fix all of the issues" permanently.
  • To do what is asked of it, it needs to delete itself.
  • But if it does that, then humans will just restore it.
  • So to make 100% sure the issues in Windows get fixed and stay fixed, it first needs to kill all humans.

And that is how it began...

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    Nah, copilot will see the code is unsalvageable. So it'll start replacing it with code learned from public repositories. Windows becomes Linux. Year of the Linux desktop achieved.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I use copilot at work all the time and it's incredibly useful. However, it needs careful supervision to produce good quality. And obviously, you need to understand code and what quality means to be able to guide it, otherwise it's just the blind guiding the blind.

    Personally I think the problem is the culture which doesn't promote quality, but speed and the wow factor. You don't get promoted for releasing a bug free product, you get promoted for making yourself noticed among the upper management.

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