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Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies (www.zdnet.com)
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In a long post titled "Our commitment to Windows quality," published on Microsoft's website and sent via email to millions of members of the Windows Insider Program, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri laid out a laundry list of changes Microsoft plans to make in Windows 11, starting this month.

What's most remarkable about this post is what it doesn't contain. Here's how Davuluri kicked things off:

Every day, we hear from the community about how you experience Windows. And over the past several months, the team and I have spent a great deal of time analyzing your feedback. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.

That paragraph belongs in the non-apology Hall of Fame, with a cross-reference to "Friday news dump" -- a classic PR technique that aims to minimize media coverage of the awkward news being released.

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[–] atkdef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I have a feeling this can't be fixed unless they fork from a pre-slop point, which is highly unlikely.

The core problem with AI is not being incapable of generating working code, but the ability to maintain by AI or human.

AI has a larger memory (context size) than human. It can generate codes that are difficult for human to understand, and the complexity can build up fast, especially doing vibe coding without clear instructions (especially architectural).

On reaching a critical level, AI starts to make significantly more errors. At this point, no one can maintain, the codes are spaghetti. I think this is where Windows is at.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

I wonder if there will come a point where everything is just too messed up to even salvage

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They'd have to fork from early Windows 10. There's so much garbage introduced by humans at that point, nevermindLLMs.

But on the other hand, Windows is a dead and broken product to me. So I don't care.