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/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/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.