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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 07:23:18 JST Aral Balkan

   Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in neutral language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)

   He said that a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down crucial infrastructure) to get top management to reverse course. He seemed to think such a failure was very likely.

   Given what we’ve been seeing recently, I tend to agree with him. Although I feel they will just double down. There’s too much money in the pot for them to fold.

   #AI #microsoft #LLMs

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     webhat (webhat@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 17:45:01 JST webhat

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     @aral I heard a talk from someone, who said something similar, some months back. I'm worried

     https://infosec.exchange/@webhat/115577847239737501

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 17:46:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sam Stephens

     @chopsstephens Yep.

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     Sam Stephens (chopsstephens@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 17:46:53 JST Sam Stephens

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     @aral "They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated" this is the ticking time bomb. I've been saying for a long time that writing code is easy; it's owning code that's hard. Designing an application to change and grow as future requirements arrive takes deliberate design thought. LLMs are not capable of that.

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     jaker (jaker@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 20:14:45 JST jaker

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     @aral
     In a minor aside, I was forced to use Copi-lot the other day to change a date field in an online Word document. No other way

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 20:14:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • jaker

     @jaker Wow.