@stevelieber@mastodon.social this but cooler

@stevelieber@mastodon.social How long before this: I went to a restaurant and the food was truly horrible. So I complained to the chef and he said, "Talk to the owner." So I complained to the owner and he said, "30% of the food prep is done by an LLM cook. It saves us a fortune! And it washes the dishes, too! Would you like to see it in action?" I said yes, and the cookbot was frying eggs in soapy water. No wonder the food tasted like shit. I wanted to tell the owner that I'd never come back but he'd already been replaced by an LLM owner-bot. So I walked out but on the way I noticed that all the diners were bots, too. Probably they're designed to eat soapy food so problem solved. It's a closed ecosystem and humans are not needed.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social A nice illustration of "Don't snort what you cook."

Links to the article:

• https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/

• https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/

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@stevelieber@mastodon.social The worst thing about it is that they're proud of it. I was never proud of any of my code when it didn't work properly. AI: "Yes, i know it's wrong, here is the solution" Prompter: "It still doesn't work because X" AI: "Yes, thanks for pointing that out. Here is the solution" Prompter: "Now it's broken here" AI: "Haha, you're right. Here is the solution" 12 hours later it still doesn't work.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social This shit right here is why I work construction.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social wasn't there a single human involved in that 30%? What does that even mean? No one wrote a promt? Nobody checked the code? There was no correction or altering the code after generation?

@stevelieber@mastodon.social oh good. I can relax now. It's not totally terrible. Just terrible. This is fine.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social Version 12 is a complete rewrite based on pre-AI code...

@stevelieber@mastodon.social i coulda told you that

@stevelieber@mastodon.social What could possibly go wrong...

@stevelieber@mastodon.social they keep telling me to upgrade for security then they pull this

@stevelieber@mastodon.social just one more data center, bro.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social "But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a Communist to believe there was", as Bill Hicks once snarked.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social a story in 2 parts

@stevelieber@mastodon.social "written by software" isn't the same as "written by AI"

@stevelieber@mastodon.social You can tell by the way that it is.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social everyday i get more confused as to why OEMs keep this stuff pre-installed... xD

@stevelieber@mastodon.social That really says it all, doesn't it?

@stevelieber@mastodon.social I'm no fan of the various Alpha & Beta testing releases being pushed around as production ready code - called "A.I."... --- Over about 15ish years, I wrote/maintained/ran code that generated my database classes (for couple DB systems) through many DB changes/upgrades - result was many files with clean code lines of 800k to 1 million lines. So automation is not all bad. What is bad is thinking that Alpha/Beta LLM software is ready to generate production releases.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social "I'll just put this here, and this here and expose the obvious stupidity of both to the Universe. There." Congratulations for the best catch, the best exposure, the best explanation, the greatest teaching social media has ever enjoyed. Boom. #ai #microsoft #techbro #vibe #code #crap #journalism #linux

@stevelieber@mastodon.social Dunno you can blame AI for this. MicroSoft's code has always been absolute garbage. That's why everyone used Borland compilers back in the day until Microsoft made a bunch of private backends that only their compilers could use and forced all 3rd party compilers to use slower versions of the same functionality, filled with extra loops and no-ops to make competitor code slower, and larger. Even lost an anti-trust suit over it but the Bush admin dismissed charges.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social Microsoft itself admits almost all of windows 11 core features are broken. I honestly never even noticed. Why, because I only run antiX Linux full stable version and everything works as expected.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social don't do LLMs kids

@stevelieber@mastodon.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place GitHub goes down almost daily now… I wonder what the next big fiasco will be.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social We can tell

@stevelieber@mastodon.social After reading the text description after the title, this picture makes less sense. Did it's author only read the titles?

@stevelieber@mastodon.social I understand it now

@stevelieber@mastodon.social They blame XAML code. Their OS is bloatware. All is being rewritten with XAML. Mozilla had to drop XUL from Firefox. But if it's true they generate so much code with word predictors, it'd be even worse. Bloatware and slop.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social :surprised_pikachu:

@stevelieber@mastodon.social I am just gobsmaked by your brilliant post. #linux #ai

@stevelieber@mastodon.social 🍿

@stevelieber@mastodon.social BRILLIANT!

@stevelieber@mastodon.social lol. lmao.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social One for the FAFO file.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social Why don't they stick with human intelligence? AI simply isn't intelligent and is bungling so much output that humans then have to correct

@stevelieber@mastodon.social I wonder how much of Microsoft's code can be copyrighted.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social Fortunately, the only thing I do on Windows is play video games.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social The new Windows 11 Mystery Edition.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social a story in 2 acts

@stevelieber@mastodon.social Somehow... I am not surprised with the privacy invasions and consent issues... I didn't expect Microsoft to make so many bad decisions on stability though. This is a whole new level of fail

@stevelieber@mastodon.social to his credit, those "up to 30%" was probably made up anyway.

@stevelieber@mastodon.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0csHgHwTC8

@stevelieber@mastodon.social Hey now, let's not take away from Microsoft's predilection to break everything by hand.

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