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>>Anon84+(OP)
Explains why Windows updates have been more broken than usual lately.

But I guess having my computer randomly stop working because a billion dollar corporation needs to save money by using a shitty text generation algorithm to write code instead of hiring competent programmers is just the new normal now.

>>bakugo+C6
I switched to Ubuntu last week for my desktop. First time in my 25+ year career I’ve felt like Microsoft was wasting my time more than administering a Linux desktop would take. The slop effect is real.

>>johneb+k7
Linux kernels will all eventually be permeated with AI-gen code as well. It will just take longer to see and feel the effects.

>>Eddy_V+L9
Your argument is in bad faith because you are using false equivalence bias.

>>bflesc+da
I wasn't making an argument. It was a prediction that all major software, (including the major linux distros) will eventually be majority (>50%) AI generated. Software that is 100% human generated will be like getting a hand knitted sweater at a farmers market. Available, but expensive and only produced at very small scale.

>>Eddy_V+5c
On what reasoning do you make this prediction? Just because corporations are mandating their employees to use AI right now does not mean it will continue.

>>vv_+Rp
Any new software developers entering the field from this point on will have to know how to use and be expected to use AI code-gen tools to get employment. Moving forward, eventually all developers use these tools routinely. There will be a point in the future where there is no one left working that has ever coded anything complex thing from scratch without AI tools. Therefore, all* code will have AI code-gen as all* developers will be using them.

* all mean 'nearly all' as of course there will be exceptions.

>>Eddy_V+av
So eventually, doesn't the KPI move from "more code" to "better code"? The pendulum will have to swing the other way eventually; seems like microsoft is just accelerating that process

>>bigfis+Ed1
> doesn't the KPI move from "more code" to "better code"?

I would love for this to be true. But another scenario that could play out is that this process accelerates software bloat that was already happening with human coded software. Notepad will be a 300GB executable in 2035.

>>Eddy_V+mo1
> Notepad will be a 300GB executable in 2035.

And this will cause what I'm talking about -- When nobody can afford memory because it's all going into the ocean-boiling datacenters, all of a sudden someone selling a program that fits into RAM will have a very attractive product