Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 using AI after an employee’s “one engineer, one month, one million code” post on LinkedIn causes outrage
https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/24/microsoft-denies-rewriting-windows-11-using-ai-after-an-employees-one-engineer-one-month-one-million-code-post-on-linkedin-causes-outrage/
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Nobody believes they didn’t use AI. They just don’t want to explain how much they used it.
It’s like Marco Pierre White saying how simple it all is on one of his cooking shows, while having a team of teenagers do everything: https://youtu.be/65YulrSNf9Q
Fuck it. Back to windows ten.
Why did Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella say back in April that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by AI then?? [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html)
they put copilot into everything, they have the worlds first agentic AI operating system, and they are mandating the use of AI across the stack.
Why lie about this – they should be bragging that this is the sum result of the billions of dollars of investment into AI.
Unless of course AI is a total scam and nobody should be using it for reliable code or other work product.
Which one is it? Is AI ground breaking and absolutely used for everything, or is it spewing trash and burning our planet in data centers?
The engineer’s post was fine: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf/
It’s very clearly, “I’m at Microsoft’s research lab and I’m looking for a new hire. This is the research project we’re working on and the culture we’re cultivating.”
It was shitty journalism that caused the outrage. Well beyond “reading between the lines”. This was whole cloth clickbait manufacturing.
Lmfao you should see what happens when I let the best consumer AI coding tool on earth write more than a couple thousand lines without checkpoints.
No fucking way one guy is just generating a million lines of clean and useable production code in one month.
I deny it too, not because Microsoft is a good honest business, but because LOL yeah fuckin right
The latest monthly security patch won’t even properly install on my PC thanks to their shitty AI coding that makes it look in the wrong place for the update so it fails the actual install.
Satya Nadella has been spewing bullshit since his first day as CEO
Yesterday my gf said a Windows 11 update broke audio on her relatively new laptop. I told her to get used to it because that’s the new norm at Microsoft.
Microsoft is such a weird company. It really should be more than one company by this point. I mean I don’t really see how the consumer side of the company, the infrastructure side (Azure) and all of the other business-oriented stuff relate to each other.
I mean, Windows “won.” It is the defacto OS of all PCs. All countries, governments, office users, home users use Microsoft Windows. It is a commodity and a base line. There is no “growth” from here. Just a gradual demise, criticism and being resented for any changes and “moves” to gain “business” from an already super-dominant position.
Mind you, Microsoft got there by really ugly means and has mostly done shit stuff to the industry and the users to get there.
No one believes any of these corpo assholes anymore. I’m taking about MS, not the engineer. Their credibility is gone.
One million lines? Who adequately reviewed that? No one.
Microsoft is way past its sell-by date and it will be nothing more than a temporary inconvenience if they just went out of business. I see that they are trying really hard, but not succeeding at that – yet. Hopefully soon.
They will just call the rewritten version “Windows 12 Copilot AI Max”.
That post reads like it was written by AI. Is HAL alive and well at Microsoft?
Another clickbait shit article responding to what was obviously a clickbait shit article based on asinine social media drivel.
Yo I am never “upgrading”. Windows 7 or 10 for me.
I do some work for them and HR told him to change it on LinkedIn or else he’s in trouble
is this why lots of things gave broken recently ? eg ccleaner will not open on windows 11 , whatsapp will not open on win11 , i used them for years with no problem but in the last month or so some apps can not be used
Most people haven’t been following this closely, but apparently [Nadella is pushing with a fanatic zeal for Microsoft to use AI for everythin](https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-copilot/ai-isnt-optional-at-microsoft-but-almost-no-one-is-using-copilot)g. He met with Microsoft higher ups recently and demanded that they use AI to increase their productivity saying that AI was going to be bigger than the internet.
I suspect this LinkedIn post is from a high up at Microsoft who knows how to politick and is doing exactly what Nadella asked for. Less shrewdly, he may also be a true believer. There are plenty of those wackos at high up places at major tech companies.
Totally out of the loop. Why is this post controversial?
I feel bad for who ever posted the original LinkedIn post. It sounds like they had some research project to try and cross write code between languages.
I can hear the VP or exec above this person saying “that’s cool but make it sexy”. Combine that with the a need to moon shot validate all the AI spend they are doing and you get an engine saying “ok I guess let’s think about the craziest thing this could do “ and writing this post.
Then the internet loses their mind and now this person and executives are on a walk back tour.
What does “one million code” mean?
How many times can the phrase “top level Microsoft engineer” be used in a single post?
MS consumer desktop software is basically garbage these days and seems to be getting worse with each cumulative update.
How much is “one million code”?
You can be sure something is true once it has been officially denied.
“…CEO Satya Nadella proudly claims that 30% of the company’s code was written by AI..”
Now I understand why windows 11 is so shitty and bugged.
Imo, a smart move would have been to keep supporting win10 with security updates for far longer, and charge for the service top make it profitable.
If someone’s buying a new PC just to use win11 and have their old one left over, they might put linux on it since win10 isn’t safe to keep using. They’ve created a situation where a lot of computers are perfectly good, except they can’t run win11.
They should be afraid of giving people a taste of ‘it’s free and it works’. If people get comfortable using linux and get it to work for them, why would they ever switch back to windows?
1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of absolute junk