Satya Nadella 30% Microsoft Code Written by AI Then Windows Recovery Breaks

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A Twitter/X post by @nsg650 saying 'It was a threat lmao'. Below it are two embedded items: First, a CNBC tech news headline reading 'Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI' published Tue, Apr 29 2025 9:33 PM EDT. Second, a tweet from @WindowsLatest (Windows Latest, verified) reporting 'Microsoft confirms major issues affecting Windows Recovery (WinRE) in a mandatory security update for Windows 11 24...' with a blue Windows Advanced options recovery screen thumbnail. The juxtaposition implies that Microsoft's AI-written code is directly responsible for breaking Windows Recovery, framing Nadella's boast as a warning rather than a feature

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Satya: '30% of our code is AI-written!' Twitter: 'It was a threat lmao.' The AI passed all the unit tests -- it just forgot that users actually need to boot their computers

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Satya: '30% of our code is AI-written!' Twitter: 'It was a threat lmao.' The AI passed all the unit tests -- it just forgot that users actually need to boot their computers
Anonymous

So 30% of the code is written by AI, and 100% of the blame is assigned to a mandatory security update. Sounds like a successful management-level abstraction
Anonymous

This is what happens when your CI pipeline’s approval step is just ChatGPT telling itself, “LGTM, ship it.”
Anonymous

After 20 years in the industry, I've learned that '30% AI-generated code' is just corporate speak for 'we finally found something to blame besides offshore contractors when Windows Update bricks your recovery partition.'
Anonymous

When your CEO brags about 30% AI-generated code and Windows Recovery immediately breaks, that's not correlation - that's a code review finding itself
Anonymous

Correlation isn’t causation, but my error budget just added a panel for ‘Copilot LOC vs WinRE breakage’ - Patch Tuesday has officially become Prompt Tuesday
Anonymous

Satya's 30% AI code KPI: perfectly scaling hallucinations from dev to mandatory prod recovery
@TheFloofyFloof 10mo

When you let me touch prod
@DerKnerd 10mo

Each function I generate with AI, I review before pushing to my Gitlab. I mean yeah, it generates code fast and often times faster than me when I google the stuff together. But I want to understand the code AND want it to work, so proper studying is necessary.
1. @deadgnom32 10mo
  
  I noticed it can make such mistakes, which you wouldn't expect a human to make, which are easily overlooked.
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Exactly, that is why I check it thoroughly :D
  
  @deadgnom32 10mo
  
  to me it made work much harder, than to write it myself. but well, I'm shifting towards more declarative and implicite languages.
  
  @deadgnom32 10mo
  
  I have no much bloat code
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  For me it highly depends on the language. Generated code for Rust is mostly trash. But JS, Dart/Flutter, Kotlin (for Compose) and Go work rather well. I haven't tried C++, C#, Java or PHP yet, but at least Java and PHP will probably tested soonish.
  
  @deadgnom32 10mo
  
  for python — depending on task, but it tends to generate OOP code, which sucks in python. for docassemble it generates mostly hard to debug trash.
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  I was surprised how well the SQL was, granted it didn't run, but only needed a few tweaks.
2. @NaNmber 10mo
  
  In giga corps like these codebases are so enormous it's impossible to have full context in your head, but ai kind of sort of can, thus it's now being used. The problem is it was trained on open git repos with sloppy code. 🙄
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Good point. Where I work, one of the largest insurance companies in Europe, we mostly have semi large projects. So the codebase is usually small enough to grasp. And well, since we have lots of legacy apps in legacy languages like smalltalk and similar there is no much use for LLMs. But in the (modern) Java and C# projects it is rather useful.
  
  @SamsonovAnton 10mo
  
  That's why I rarely open-source my shitty code — to save the humanity. 😅
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Weakling :D
  
  @gremion_cto 10mo
  
  There is no ai tool I know with any possible modern llm that can take full context of large project. I think human Dev still can handle more context in his head than any modern code llm
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  100% agree, for small to medium sized projects I do think AI can have a good overview of the project. But the larger it gets the more it hallucinates. The biggest project I have (a content management system) is too large for the Jetbrains AI Assistent
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  the biggest project I have (moodle plugin) is fucking awful and I want rid of it hi I'm normal I'm ok I'm fine
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Well, it is the largest public one. There are a few I do for a friend which are interconnected, but most of them are closed source.
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  yeah mine is public too but I want out of there
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  when you said moodle plugin I haven't thought of that large of a moodle plugin :O
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  I want to die
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  everything is just fine :333
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  why not kill the project then?
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  part of a startup. there's 3 other people in our group. and we have a customer to satisfy
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Dang, I am lucky my pet projects are all hobbiest and my income comes from work for an insurance. Industrial insurance is a rather safe job
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  yes. count yourself lucky 🫩 I can't wait to get a proper job and hand the plugin off to someone else
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  …thanks tg for not rendering that emoji
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  I thought it was just me :D
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  it rendered in the preview… idk why it doesn't in the final message
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  it's the new "bags under eyes" one
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  yeah that one is nice :D
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  very useful for me
  
  @hur7m3 10mo
  
  Works on android
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  I really like working in corporate, we are unionized, we have a canteen, proper benefits and such. So recommend it :)
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  currently applying as a train driver for ÖBB. seems to be going well so far. no luck at IT companies, they seem to have forgotten how to hire people
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  You have a train drivers license? Or with vocational training (Ausbildung) first?
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  with training first
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  if I had a train drivers license, I'd already be hired. they seem to be having a major shortage of both train drivers and rolling stock now that covid is over and the train hype has continued where 2019 had left off
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  and with nobody being able to afford a car anymore* the job security is like nothing else *hyperbole. but the combination of cars getting more expensive, gas getting more expensive, and a prolonged financial slump is really hitting people in the "maybe we'll take the train today"
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  I am very jealous of your 365 € ticket, we have just the Deutschlandticket, which gives you local trains and busses but not intercity... And it costs 69 €, believe, luckily my employer pays for it mostly.
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  what 365€ ticket the year-long all-trains-trams-and-buses-of-every-company-yes-even-private-ones is 900ish €
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  there's a 365€ ticket for just vienna
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  doesn't include as much as the 900€ "klimaticket" tho iirc
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  But honestly, 900 € is still fine for a year. To get the same service in Germany you need a BahnCard 100 which costs 4.899 € so yeah. Except when you are under 27 then it is "only" 3.199 €
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  oh absolutely. I just can't afford it rn. no job, remember? the startup is unfortunately not very lucrative rn
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  rent is emptying my pockets well enough already
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Yeah rent prices are insane. I am very glad that I could rent an apartment in one of the houses my parents own (they owned 2) and my mother sold the one I was living in. I recently checked if I could rent one of the apartments out and it was like 800 € cold, that is basically insane from my perspective.
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  I'm paying 800€/mo. too, but erm "one of the houses my parents own"? mr. rich over here
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  No not really, they have two, one they live in and one my sister lives in :D
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  "not really" meanwhile I had to lend my own parents money so they could afford to build a house in the countryside
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Ok, point for you. You win
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  I mean you're allowed to be rich but goddamn
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  not like rich rich, just like - top 80% I'd guess
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  I'm just envious is all
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  I didn't take that as being hostile or mean to me no worries. I do realize I am rather privileged. But, and that is important for me, none of the houses were inherited to anybody in my family. My mother bought the one I now have from my grandfather and the other one they bought with this one as a security.
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  nice
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  At least it is not this insane inheriting thing that the really rich have. My mother said to me "buy the house or I sell it to someone on the market". Which meant for me either I pay my parents every month 800 € or a random landlord more than tripple that
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  yeah :( I'm glad rent prices in austria are much much lower than the rest of the … world, really
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  ahhhh, yeah confused that.
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  honestly, this and school made me hate programming. very little passion left in me now that I have proper amounts of stress associated with it
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  oh boy, back in 2018 I had a burnout, nearly destroyed any passion too. But somehow, I really don't know how, I managed to make a mental split between hobby coding and work coding. That is why I won't code in my free time for money.
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  I hope I'll be able to do that too. I haven't had much time for hobby coding recently so I'm not sure if I still like it
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  certainly after the incident I definitely noticed that my head wasn't in the game as much as it used to be anymore
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  I wish you best of luck, I hope the incident was nothing permenant
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  Thumbs are pressed, for me what helped was getting some distance. In my sick time (9 months) I bought a way too expensive graphics workstation and made Lego CAD. That was lots of fun
  
  @hur7m3 10mo
  
  Don't! Who would hate on me on the internet?
  
  @RiedleroD 10mo
  
  I want to remind everyone that the /votekick is still going
  
  @hur7m3 10mo
  
  xD
  
  dev_meme 10mo
  
  JetBrains? Literally one of the shittiest among them? 🥲
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  it uses Claude at the end
  
  @DerKnerd 10mo
  
  it was the time it took to upload all the code files to the server
  
  dev_meme 10mo
  
  There’s a lot of nuances on how it uses it God, they even how ratings as to which tool uses Claude/other llm in a better way And well, when you use it via proxies like this always keep in mind that they, at all times, will be looking into options of cutting your context window unless you pay per token With recent update Anthropic committed AI crime by lowering Opus limits to crazy low numbers but it’s still INCREDIBLY good while only having 200k context Sonnet has 1M limit but meh, it’s not that good. Even though it may be good at following plan that was created for it But damn, I need 1M context for llm that creates plan, not executes it 😭
@erdenwerk 10mo

Fuck this I‘m out here selling Windows 11 updates and clients WILL blame me for a preview pane not working.
1. @TheFloofyFloof 10mo
  
  Wut
  
  @erdenwerk 10mo
  
  Let’s just hope they don’t know about the preview pane.
@Johnny_bit 10mo

Vibe coding is not coding then - it's QA...
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 10mo

is that unusual by any margin tho?
@ZmEYkA_3310 10mo

Also didnt the other update brick ssds lmfao
@chekoopa 10mo

Am I incentivized to upgrade from now-deprecated Win10? Hell naaaaw, I'll stick to ESU, even if I have to switch regions because of that
1. @lambda_coolusername 10mo
  
  in penguin world, there's no such thing as an extended security update...
  
  _ 10mo
  
  Well Canonical and Red Hat have them, don't they ? But at least there's plenty of distros where each major version doesn't suck more than the previous
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 10mo
  
  Yup, and companies like having an LTS with guaranteed security updates

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