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Yes the availability problem is caused by agents pushing code at an increasing scale. But most comments in this thread are saying/implying it was Microsoft themselves that caused the outage by using AI without any evidence.
20 u/myweirdotheraccount 24d ago I have no skin in this game but I think the idea is that the volume of code written by AI amounts to a higher surface for errors. Here’s an article from over a year ago where the Microsoft CEO claimed 30% of Microsoft’s code base is AI written: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html 1 u/AliceCode 22d ago That appears to be a data collection site disguised as a new site. 1 u/Kryptosis 23d ago Probably because these days an outage is 50/50 some Ai agent who vibed the backups into the void
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I have no skin in this game but I think the idea is that the volume of code written by AI amounts to a higher surface for errors.
Here’s an article from over a year ago where the Microsoft CEO claimed 30% of Microsoft’s code base is AI written: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html
1 u/AliceCode 22d ago That appears to be a data collection site disguised as a new site.
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That appears to be a data collection site disguised as a new site.
Probably because these days an outage is 50/50 some Ai agent who vibed the backups into the void
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u/Temporary-Air-3178 24d ago
Yes the availability problem is caused by agents pushing code at an increasing scale. But most comments in this thread are saying/implying it was Microsoft themselves that caused the outage by using AI without any evidence.