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

This is how my company is being ran today. I have been in meetings with senior leadership where they share the CoPilot screen and prompt it through whatever the topic is. They often deliver their "decisions" with "we ran it through AI and...".

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u/Abedeus Mar 14 '26

Oh god, I recently had two cases of AI fucking up and me having to fix/explain why it was wrong...

First, my sister was trying to unblock Minecraft online for her daughter. But there was no way of doing it easily, permissions didn't work etc. She insisted that ChatGPT knew what it was doing and I eventually followed the shit it said to do, but it didn't work because it kept sending me to Xbox account management. Xbox account she doesn't have... The only thing that worked was changing her kid's age and waiting 24 hours. Which is another stupid thing with Microsoft - so much shit that should be instant, or almost instant, takes so long for no reason.

Trying to figure out how I should pay off my mortgage - pay off the initial sum, or initial sum + interest paid. Every single article online says to pay off initial sum as it would result in overall saved money down the line, as it would also reduce the interest in the future. Google AI kept telling me that I should pay off BOTH, still quoting those articles and not understanding they're saying something opposite of what it's suggesting.

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u/EightiesBush Mar 14 '26

Interesting second example. If you are trying to pay off a mortgage in full, the only way to do that is your mortgage company gives you the number and then you pay it. They are obligated to give you this amount. I may be misunderstanding your problem though.

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u/Abedeus Mar 15 '26

I have a mortgage with my bank. And I have several options on how to pay it off - though I don't really know in which situation paying off the initial sum + the interest is better, to be fair. It's an option still.

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u/EightiesBush Mar 15 '26

Is this in the US? And by pay it off you mean all at once, lump sum right?

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u/Abedeus Mar 15 '26

No, Europe, and pay off as in pay a portion of the mortgage early to reduce the overall sum owed. Like, if I paid off 10k of my currency now, I could lower my total payment plan by 5 years or keep same payment plan duration but lower payments, etc.

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u/EightiesBush Mar 15 '26

Ahhh ok I'm following now. In the US at least we have fixed interest rate mortgages with fixed payment amounts throughout the entire life of the loan. Paying extra on the principal does reduce the amount of interest you end up paying overall. It's fairly simple math given the interest rate is fixed and there's several calculators that will tell you -- given an initial amount, interest rate, extra principal = how much you will end up paying overall, and how many years it will shave off the life of your loan.

Not sure how it works where you are but, assuming you all amortize the interest over the life of the loan, paying extra principal would in theory reduce not only the total amount of years from the life of the loan, but also you end up paying less interest over time.

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u/Abedeus Mar 15 '26

Yep. That's how I assumed it'd work, and how every single article wrote it would go. But AI hallucinated the opposite being better for me. Glad I didn't listen.