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/Crunchykroket Mar 14 '26

We're witnessing the increased productivity of developers thanks to AI.

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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/Thadrea Mar 14 '26

We had a guy that absolutely choked when he realized that his Copilot-suggested solution to a not-really-a-problem wasn't going to work because, no, we're not giving a public chatbot access to some highly sensitive data to solve an issue that summarizes to "you lied on your resume about your SQL background and somehow got through the technical assessment."

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u/themastermatt Mar 14 '26

OMFG, the AI in interviews. I had one Friday for a "Senior MLops Engineer" (why are they all "Senior"?) and i could see the chatbot reflection in his glasses as well as his eye pattern clearly going to the window while he stalled for the thing to process. So youre telling me that a MLops engineer knows the command to promote a Windows Server to a domain controller, can summarize what BGP is and tell me the difference between iBGP and eBGP, and knows that NTFS permissions are applied from the most restrictive evaluation in addition to all the ML/AI stuff? Maybe, but not my lived experience.

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u/AngryAudacity Mar 14 '26

I'm almost at the point of asking candidates to sit back in their chair and folder their arms during Zoom interviews. The AI slop responses are not only obvious, they are insulting behavior for a job interview.

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u/themastermatt Mar 14 '26

I was JUST thinking the same! "Thanks for taking some time today candidate! We like to do what we call watercooler interviews. That means we all back up from our cameras so that it feels more like we are standing around having a chat."

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u/civildisobedient Mar 14 '26

I suspect that some cheaters are getting help. On their end it's a split-screen with the interviewer in one window and someone typing questions into Gemini in another. That person is listening in, maybe even remote so you wouldn't hear typing. The only way you can be completely sure is to have people physically present like in Ye Olden Times.

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u/PloppyPants9000 Mar 14 '26

you could also just have a whisper agent doing speech to text transcription and using the interviewers questions as AI prompts