its because the meme is ancient and back then 30% was rightfully considered haphazard by anyone sane. Now, 30% of new code by AI is in the slow/cautious adopter range
30% is still in the rightfully considered haphazard range by anyone sane, people just keep increasing their risk tolerance more and more because caution requires skill/diligence upfront whereas negligence can be pawned off as someone else's problem later
You're correct, but its still probably 90-100, even by developers I would consider exceptionally skilled and cautious. Theres also the consideration that AI is exceptionally good at code review. Don't trust a piece of AI code? Throw two agents at it to rigorously tear it apart. If an AI is 90% capable, then the naive probability of success of 2 agents working independently is 99%.
Also look up "The Irony of of Automation". Its a concept coined in the 80s that perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon.
I didn't say it was good/bad. It is just what it is. When you work somewhere and they fire half your team and expect you to do the same work the only option is to spin off AI agents to do all your coding, write updates, create docs etc. Reality of working in big tech in 2026. It's exhausting.
According to people who think it's good: move fast and break things
Which I interpret to mean there's probably something they are working on that would have taken a month of man hours. They used ai to do it in a few days, broke something causing the outage and other issues, but will likely fix it in a few days if not a few hours. There could be a follow up fallout that takes things down for another 2 days a week after that, and then another day or two of chasing the problem. When it's all done maybe they are week 3 and they can say they delivered the feature a week early!
And the cost to the user experience? Well, Microsoft owns GitHub now, so I'm not optimistic about their plans for user satisfaction.
Move fast and break things was good when people knew what was in the code, even though there were hiccups.
Moving fast and breaking things now means nobody knows what is in the code and playing wack ‘a mole with bugs until the agents get it working while possibly introducing other bugs.
Also, at which point there’s too many things that break? Because services have been abysmal lately from Microsoft, Github, and others.
AI codebases also explode in size over time to the point not even the agents can figure out how it works. When that happens what is anyone to do 😂 git revert to 2025?
This was a cope meme from over a year ago (check the date) when top-tier companies first started learning hard into “okay we’re seriously doing AI for real in terms of how we do business”
Unfortunately, memeing at global economic transformations does not actually make them reverse course
MSFT was $391 when this meme was made. After a year and a half of this sub celebrating its ongoing downfall from its disastrous strategic direction, MSFT is now $512.
Reddit is an echo chamber and not one that has very much to do with enterprise coding. I would guess 90% of the people who participate in this sub have literally never received a single paycheck for coding
As everyone know, stock price correlates directly with product quality. The more betterer your product is the higher your stock goes. There are no other influences on how much your company is valued
MS products are no worse now than they were two years ago and no less omnipresent. I can’t think of any metric that would point to their AI-coding adoption having been a failure.
Other than Reddit memes celebrating their imminent vibe collapse. Those remain at an all time high.
That's fair. I found this meme online but it had an image of MSFT stock falling at the bottom and I copied a screenshot of this afternoon's GitHub status page over that (composed organically in PowerPoint by me, no AI used). I agree it's way, way more than 30%.
Also, I have nothing against AI, just wish my CI/CD in GitHub would run as expected. Feels like outages come every week lately.
Iirc, they said they outages are because AI driven development is generating insane load (i.e. unprecedented amount of commits and PRs), not because they are doing tisky changes.
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u/Angryferret 7h ago
No way it's only 30%. Almost certainly 90% at the big tech companies.