<![CDATA[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.]]>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 natural 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 a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down critical 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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/9570fc08-5da3-466d-ad57-fd640c30eaac/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.RSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 10:54:01 GMTSat, 23 May 2026 22:21:00 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:14:50 GMT]]>@aral It's always a bad sign when people on the ground are confirming my suspicions about the state of anything. This is no exception.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/115708188881910739/statuses/116630676490812817https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/115708188881910739/statuses/116630676490812817Sun, 24 May 2026 17:14:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 16:44:28 GMT]]>@aral

Problem is: the very people who need to say that all these billions of dollars were wasted are the very people whose necks are on the board of directors' chopping block. The likes of Nadella, the CEOs and such, are the one's who'd get axed for wasting so much money but they're also the ones who get to decide whether or not cut losses or double down.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/tacitus/statuses/116630557072280490https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/tacitus/statuses/116630557072280490Sun, 24 May 2026 16:44:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 16:07:14 GMT]]>@aral I’m sure they could find a fungible human who’s down in their token-burning quota to be a high-tech whipping boy to fire.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/haskins/statuses/116630410681396907https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/haskins/statuses/116630410681396907Sun, 24 May 2026 16:07:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 15:40:34 GMT]]>@mathew
Sounds like business as usual for Microsoft, to be honest. Delivering the bare minimum before customers take their money elsewhere has been their business model for decades.
I was hoping for something more substantially rotten that costs enough money to make them think.
@aral

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/dkl/statuses/116630305816140630https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/dkl/statuses/116630305816140630Sun, 24 May 2026 15:40:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 13:18:29 GMT]]>@ArtHarg @mathew @dkl Already happened to Amazon. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cloud-outages-ai-tools-amazon-web-services-aws

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116629747094919463https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116629747094919463Sun, 24 May 2026 13:18:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 12:41:17 GMT]]>@aral OK, so here's another little bit that fits the pattern.

We're due a catastrophe. The mad king is supposed to utterly ruin our ability to respond to emergency. This seems relatively accomplished. Next step is to cause a massive crisis that topples the last of the old republic.

Synchs with the "data centers" that are really just large sections of land secured for corporate.

They're investing all our 401ks in it through SpaceX. So...yeah. You are correct.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116629600813963065https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116629600813963065Sun, 24 May 2026 12:41:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 12:07:40 GMT]]>@aral "Can't do code review because too much code is being generated" is right up there with "well someone would have developed it anyway". AI is just software. It's being driven by humans. If those humans prioritize code review over making their software generate code, it by definition cannot produce code faster than they can review it. So what that statement really means is "we don't care about reviewing code."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://retro.social/users/freakazoid/statuses/116629468636065179https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://retro.social/users/freakazoid/statuses/116629468636065179Sun, 24 May 2026 12:07:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 11:49:19 GMT]]>@aral @mathew @dkl No, something that costs Microsoft money. Something like 365 or Azure being unavailable for a couple of days or weeks.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/ArtHarg/statuses/116629396485522373https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/ArtHarg/statuses/116629396485522373Sun, 24 May 2026 11:49:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 11:13:14 GMT]]>@jaker Wow.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116629254614309965https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116629254614309965Sun, 24 May 2026 11:13:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 11:07:26 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/jaker/statuses/116629231794593226https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/jaker/statuses/116629231794593226Sun, 24 May 2026 11:07:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 09:59:46 GMT]]>@aral sickos.jpg

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116628965704574922https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116628965704574922Sun, 24 May 2026 09:59:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:54:37 GMT]]>@webhat @aral 🚨🚨

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116183607298703759/statuses/116628709527518742https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116183607298703759/statuses/116628709527518742Sun, 24 May 2026 08:54:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:51:05 GMT]]>@aral @glynmoody Yes well cue management that thinks it knows better what to do followed by knowing it better how to do it. Tic tic tic tic tic...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ruurd/statuses/116628695657474746https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ruurd/statuses/116628695657474746Sun, 24 May 2026 08:51:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:50:35 GMT]]>@chopsstephens @aral Yep.

Greenfield is easy.

Upgrades and significant modification...not so much.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/pixelpusher220/statuses/116628693667760930https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/pixelpusher220/statuses/116628693667760930Sun, 24 May 2026 08:50:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:47:20 GMT]]>@webhat @aral as someone who used to administer systems, this shit scares the crap out of me. I'm no dev, but I've supported many many devs in my life.

I used to be able to say to lead devs "this is happening, and this is the error" and they'd almost know why. I don't even think that's possible now

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sortius/statuses/116628680922293406https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sortius/statuses/116628680922293406Sun, 24 May 2026 08:47:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:46:32 GMT]]>@violetmadder @chopsstephens Sure looks that way.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116628677744036843https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116628677744036843Sun, 24 May 2026 08:46:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:45:59 GMT]]>@chopsstephens Yep.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116628675599891485https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116628675599891485Sun, 24 May 2026 08:45:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:45:32 GMT]]>@mathew @dkl This.

By “catastrophic” he meant something that causes people to die, etc. (Medical systems, etc.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116628673854385629https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116628673854385629Sun, 24 May 2026 08:45:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:38:53 GMT]]>@aral Betting on disaster to stop them is an illusion; the capital and systems that have tasted the machine's efficiency in erasure and profit will not back down, but will treat victims and software errors as an "acceptable cost" of dominance. When human skill and responsibility fall, humanity falls first💔😔🇵🇸🇵🇸✌️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116183607298703759/statuses/116628647675304242https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116183607298703759/statuses/116628647675304242Sun, 24 May 2026 08:38:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 08:37:22 GMT]]>@aral Wherever humans are within the process, they'll be the ones taking the blame in cases of catastrophic failure as management put way too much money into the bot for it to be liable.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116628641690992256https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116628641690992256Sun, 24 May 2026 08:37:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 07:29:29 GMT]]>@aral Well either that, or it becoming more expensive than to hire a human programmer.

However one needs to take into account that many people live in a bubble of "OK-ish software". Outside of it there are companies like Atlassian who have products, created by humans, which could be much improved by getting them re-written by AI. There's just so much terrible software out there already.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f-ckendehoelle.de/users/casandro/statuses/116628374813033997https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f-ckendehoelle.de/users/casandro/statuses/116628374813033997Sun, 24 May 2026 07:29:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 06:13:07 GMT]]>@aral I'm forced to use M$ at work. This is just anecdotal but it's getting slower and buggier, lots of people have been complaining. It's certainly not getting amazingly great.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/BenjaminKlein/statuses/116628074511341117https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/BenjaminKlein/statuses/116628074511341117Sun, 24 May 2026 06:13:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 06:12:12 GMT]]>@aral The ultimate iteration of "too big to fail". It'll make the bank bailout seem insignificant.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/ap/users/116544270994105142/statuses/116628070901668037https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/ap/users/116544270994105142/statuses/116628070901668037Sun, 24 May 2026 06:12:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Sun, 24 May 2026 03:17:55 GMT]]>@aral
Copilot's going to end up on par with bing if they're not more careful.
MS still have pool tables...? Seems like a good LLM-proof career.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musicworld.social/users/ZamRock/statuses/116627385609949302https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musicworld.social/users/ZamRock/statuses/116627385609949302Sun, 24 May 2026 03:17:55 GMT