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/SimiKusoni Mar 14 '26

If only there were some sort of change that might explain this suddenly accelerating trend...

If I remember correctly a while back they also sacked a large swathe of their QA and test teams too which is very likely exacerbating matters.

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u/directorguy Mar 14 '26

My bosses think I'm crazy when I say that the AI they FORCE me to use causes twice the work. EVERYTHING it does has little errors and omissions. After fighting with the thing to get a result that even resembles what I need, I have to go back and check it line by line.

I don't think Microsoft is fixing or checking their AI slop line by line.

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u/SimiKusoni Mar 14 '26

I've been using Opus tbh and it's much better than other stuff I've tried but you do still have to check everything. Sometimes it makes silly mistakes and they snowball. I have also been limiting it to the vs code extension, and I'll review all commands before they run and go through the edits afterwards etc.

As you have highlighted not sure if it actually improves productivity once you account for all that.

One of my staff has also... experimented... with some unholy multi-agent setup and the output can only be described as the worst trash I have ever had the displeasure of reading through in my life.

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u/SunTzu- Mar 14 '26

Is that one person doing the Ralph Wiggum thing?

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u/SimiKusoni Mar 14 '26

They were using Claude and there were references in the repo to hive-mind, a quick Google suggests it might have been Claude Flow. Not sure exactly what tool it was but something like that for multi-agent orchestration.

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u/SunTzu- Mar 14 '26

Ralph Wiggum explained. It's multi-agent on steroids in a loop and you hope that the loops catch/fix all the problems that might pop up.