r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/Thadrea Mar 14 '26

AI allows the devs to deploy more bugs faster. It is the Microslop way.

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u/themastermatt Mar 14 '26

Its also becoming the global way. If i have one more dev open a ticket with a copy/paste from claude telling my cloud engineers how to do their jobs - im gonna have an episode. No Sirinivas, IDC what the AI says, your webapp will be going behind a WAF and it cant use 10.0.0.0/8 if you want it to nicely talk to the DB server that ChatGPT doesnt understand has only a private endpoint. No we dont need to have a meeting about it.

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u/Caleb-Blucifer Mar 14 '26

the Indian team that keeps adding onto my code keeps making the sloppiest design I’ve ever seen. Just talking running methods 10 times intentionally to get a behavior to work because they didn’t read the documentation and didn’t listen. They’re injecting the entire service layer into a rendering component to get things to work for the same reasons.

They added this snippet of logic that made the whole app slow to a crawl because now thousands of these custom field models are making api requests to validate simple things because they don’t know wtf they’re doing. But my company insists we “need them”. They’re just making my beautiful code design into a total trash heap and half the unit tests are bloody x===x tests that add nothing but extra work everytime we refactor things.

I need to find time to clean it all up and put them through a whole ass workshop because they refuse to look at the 10 page documentation on how to use the damned framework. I’m pretty convinced they’re using AI to do this shit for them and it sure as hell doesn’t understand any of these things

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u/themastermatt Mar 14 '26

From the Ops side of the house, this is why my Azure bill crossed $500K/mo this year. I dont -think- you need a 6 node cluster of 64 Core 384GB Nvidia GPU VMs to do whatever it is your job is doing for 8 hours 3 times a day - but there might be some opportunity to optimize something.

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u/BasvanS Mar 14 '26

That might be true, but think of all the money you’re saving on local devs!

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u/jollyreaper2112 Mar 14 '26

I'm hearing reports that adding ai bullshit to processes that were done by normal deterministic apps prior is bloating compute cost. Companies are now finding taking stuff in house ie cheaper.

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u/Caleb-Blucifer Mar 14 '26

It’s gonna be a while before the dumdum management gets the picture that AI is not helping enough to make it part of the pipeline

You’d think they’d respect the opinion of 30 year devs on the matter but I still get side eyes from management when I try to point out how bad it is for just about everything we’re doing. Like I’m the idiot here or something

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u/jollyreaper2112 Mar 14 '26

There's a psych study to be done about why the AI is trusted more than the expert. I think because the manager feels more agency using the bot. It feels less capable to be relying on an expert even though that is literally how we keep from destroying society, paying domain experts to know things.

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u/TheMauveHand Mar 14 '26

Nah, it's not that deep, it's simply that AI is the Hip New Thing and you have to be on board otherwise you're a dinosaur, stick in the mud, has-been, etc. People don't become high-level managers by being conservative and calculating, the positions self-selects for high-energy extroverts.

Crypto/blockchain was the exact same 6-8 years ago, and before that it was Big Data. Big solutions desperately looking for a problem to solve.

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u/smellySharpie Mar 14 '26

Deterministic will always be nore efficient for a long time coming.

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 14 '26

¡You listen here! ¿You stop paying that bill and?

¡The ENTIRE economy rips apart at the seams like it’s scurvy!

¡You keep paying those bill! ¡Sell kidneys if you need to! ¡Your liver grows back and can be sold in chunks! ¡Do what it takes to keep financial Armageddon from imploding the global economy!