Vibe coding or no, this is a massive QA failure.
You think the QA was done by a person? I’ll bet this was Vibe QA’d.
The public, aka Microsoft QA Team, found the bug. It’s a QA success!
Nothing fucking works anymore.
Sorta related, i found a copilot pull request (merged) on an npm project repo and I was so disgusted I wanted to delete the dependency and do my own thing manually, but alas this was at work and my time on this earth is finite (for now)
(I just wanted to share this)
The usage of vibe coding tools in the NPM repo has only led to two major incidents (supply chain attacks) in the last months
Oh interesting, I thought they were all phishing attacks… goes to show the risk I guess.
Tbf this is why PRs and code reviews exist.
Agree, but if we are going towards the AI writes all code future that these AI companies want, then code review will become inneffective.
If we stop writing code, we will lose that “edge” that helps us detect bad logic when reading a PR.
The more code we have to review, the more mistakes we will make letting bad code through (I believe this is the case). It’s less fatal when the code we review is written by smart humans because it’s unlikely they code something as bad as an AI can produce.
Anyways, I think using any AI agent to write bigish blobs of code is a mistake, but if you are gonna do it i hope you have multiple fresh pairs of eyes on each PR. Still will give me the ick seeing an AI PR get merged tho.
Fair, I can agree with that.
I think it was reviewed and comitted by AI or something
That shouldn’t count IMO
my time on this earth is finite (for now)
Let me know when you get that immortality hack working!
You are the first I will call :)
I was recently pulling my hair out because a recent update caused a bug in the Windows recovery media creator that prevented the Windows RE from recognizing USB input devices. The few weeks between the faulty update and the fix just happened to coincide with me needing to use it.
WTF are they doing messing with something as basic as the Recovery Environment? And further, in a way that breaks its utility entirely?
And no regression tests that caught it
Captive audience on the contracts side, so they can do whatever they want as crappy as they want and the contracts still generate revenue.
You wanted a usable product? Stay away from Big Tech anymore.
Marketing discovered AI can code (terribly).
All week I’ve been sending these to my coworker, currently hip deep in AI propaganda, at the Microsoft Power Platform conference in Vegas.
How the hell do you fuck up the task manager, an application that hasn’t needed to be touched in decades? At best, you stick a new skin over it to match the aesthetic. The core functionality of the task manager should have remained untouched going back to… What, Windows 3.0?
I really don’t agree with this comment seeing how useful task manager has gotten over the years. It used to be pretty simple process explorer, but has evolved into almost a full fledged resource monitor. The only thing that feels like missing now is afterburner-like overlay in games.
And temperature?
It has temps for GPU I know that
Never really needed that since I built my own rig, do maintenance and trust my build. Never had problems with temps, even during prolonged stresstesting
Okay, but literally all of that is reason to need temperature monitoring?
Only during the finish phase to make sure your system stays optimal during full load. No need to do that during actual use afterwards.
Think of it like servicing the car vs using the car
When I used to be on Windows, I shifted to Process Explorer. It is developed by Microsoft only I guess as part of their Sysinternals suite. I think it retains an older style UI but is significantly more powerful (has/d virus total integration for one).
Because they vibe code the shit out of everything now. Insane shit is bound to happen.
They’re ruining LinkedIn and GitHub as well.
No way… Are you serious?
Stares in disbelief
Hugs htop
Oh no, Windows 10 won’t get updates from their vibe coding era!
Personal anecdote, but I’ve had Microsoft apps like Outlook and Teams crash on me on 4 different days this week while at work. Is anyone else getting similar instability issues?
Teams crashes or fails to work for me at least a few times a week and has for months. Outlook glitches out daily. I legit started using the web access instead of actual Outlook because it constantly bugged out.
Both Teams and Outlook are so ridiculously slow for what they do and the hardware they are running on.
Meanwhile in Windows 11: 4 years after release and I still can’t click on the clock on my secondary monitor to look at the calendar.
my windows 10 stability has been horrendous the past month or so
constant file explorer and office program crashes, random reboots and blue screens, lock ups. no consistent pattern to it that I can tell.
also getting weird glitches in teams that I’ve never seen before that require a force close and restart to make it usable again
That’s what happens when you start using LLMs for all of your software development. Garbage code all day long.
why does the guy in the meme always looked stoned.
Yes
Last issue I had with Windows was that I couldn’t update because my EFI partition was too small (the partition is created automatically on install). Why do I never get the funny ones?
I’ve never noticed this. Mostly because I basically never close Task Manager. Because programs hanging is common enough that it’s actually useful to have Task Manager open on a separate screen.
On an unrelated note, I must set myself a reminder for tomorrow to give installing Linux another go…
