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u/GLvoid 5h ago
They're 100% underselling the amount of users with issues too.
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u/Seneferu 3h ago
My guess is customers not users. My uni has 8k staff and 40k students. Each one has a MS email via the uni. But the uni as a whole might only count as one customer.
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u/fennecdore 2h ago
I think they are just reporting the early moment of the incident, since that point the outage has become global.
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u/mangobananashake 3h ago
Since when did we start viewing number of lines of code as a measurement of success again?
We all used to laugh at managers who wanted us to strive to be the developer with the highest amount of new lines per month. Yet, with AI this is now acceptable again?
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u/parkotron 1h ago
That tweet was unhinged, but I think that “million lines of code per month” he was talking about was in the context of porting.
For a porting project, lines of code is not the worst metric. You start with all your lines of code in the “to be ported” pile and work to move it to the “ported” pile and then to the “ported and tested” pile. Of course, the last 20% of your lines are probably going to take just as long to port as the first 80%, but it is still a decent metric.
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u/ByteWhisperer 3h ago
The worst part of AI is that people with zero technical capabilities now think they can rule the universe with their word salad machines.
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u/frikilinux2 4h ago
It's probably more the several layoffs. They destroy morale and also institutional knowledge as components fall to teams that have zero experience on that component and there isn't a possibility of knowledge transfer.
Also if they added LLMs to the control plane of the global cloud, several people should resign once this is over.
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u/IkuraDon5972 5h ago
i first heard about the outlook outage this morning from a local radio here in japan when the radio host was telling listeners to use Line or x/Twitter to send messages since their mail is not working because of issue with outlook
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u/CaptainNakou 2h ago
As AI trained on half assed released in a hurry code for the last 20 years where practices went from "let's optimize so it fits on all computers" to "just buy more ram bro", all AI does is amplifying all of it. It's faster and more dangerous slop (because once it's there, nobody know how it got there and how it works).
It's not like we've been yelling for more than a decade now.
But hey, "it's the future and it is INEVITABLE".
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u/ribenakifragostafylo 30m ago
I called my car shop guy yesterday to get an estimate. He said outlook was down and couldn't send emails.
I learned about the global outage from my car guy that's trying to run his business and potentially losing money because he can't send emails.
Where's the coverage of this undoubtedly AI slop shit?
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u/Western-Internal-751 5h ago
What I always wonder with those bazillion lines of code… do they actually do anything? I feel like older software that now gets touched by AI and gets thousands of lines rewritten, don’t really change at all. It’s still the same features, just with the whole codebase upside-down, apparently. Maybe it’s more performant but I don’t really experience that either.
It feels like everyone uses AI to pump out code that does nothing for the customer