Yes, bad decisions can be made by multiple industries. Good job pointing out the obvious.

Meanwhile, I'll point to various industries that build for the long term, and Windows is nowhere to be found. See: Avionics. Even DAL-E equipment (not needed for safety, does not impact safety during critical failure) still doesn't use Windows, because it's shit and fleet operators are interested in supportable systems in their $100M aircraft that they need to keep in the air. Thus, you get designs focused around fast-swap line-replaceable units and long-lived supported release channels that just cannot be done on Microsoft software.

Wow, did I show you to be a complete fucking moron at some point?

Thanks for letting me know I can live rent-free between your ears any time I want by simply posting something that has nothing to do with you.

It's wonderful to know that I've effected your day in such a manner to cause you to obsess.

Of course they are incompetent. That's the problem.

The tooling is of sufficient complexity without sane defaults to give best practices by default. And the IT monkeys are incompetent so they don't know how to set it to best practices by default.

I never said there was just one problem here.

Is LG and Samsung in some kind of enshittification contest to see who can make the most enshittified products or something?

Very well said, I enjoyed reading that. Thank you!

The way that I got Windows 11 to the benchmark of "still works the same as it did yesterday" was to virtualize it, feed hardware into it via IOMMU that it needs real hardware access for (GPU, sound, segregated PCIe SSD) to still get top performance, and then snapshot that root drive. Keep anything that requires fast disk access on the PCIe SSD, including the swap file.

When they fuck things up, I revert the snapshot. Fuck you, Microsoft.

Every IT-controlled Windows system I've seen in 10 years uses automatic updates because that's the default behavior of Windows - it's just a matter of if they are pointing it to a controlled update proxy, or pulling the default firehose direct from Microsoft.

And it's fucking horrible. No, I don't want to reboot in the middle of a presentation I'm leading to install a new mandated version of some shit I don't even ever launch.

Most IT departments have no idea how to set up automatic updating properly so that it still gets the job done, but doesn't piss off the users that you can't really piss off (executives, etc.) so they index on the side of threading the needle to not piss off the bosses, but still deliver minimum acceptable patching.

I don't know why anyone would make an embedded hardware product run on Windows. You are asking for extended support nightmares.

Everyone should have learned this long before Windows XP.

When your next version is shittier than the existing version, a significant number of existing customers will say "no thanks" and stay on the existing version, because functionality always trumps marketing bullshit.

This is not new. It's not new, even for Microsoft. See: Windows ME, Windows 8.

Which means, as I said, your process is fucked up because it's a rubber stamp.

A peer review where the code isn't actually reviewed by a peer isn't a peer review. AI review is not peer review - it's a really fancy linter and type checker. Unless you are doing some advanced automated testing using things like Xray / Cucumber / etc. to actually ground your AI review in product / feature specs, it's not going to infer that exacting information to know if you're over the target or not.

People know what the code is actually supposed to do, and not do.

Do proper peer reviews.

Contrary to other replies to your message, trilling or telling you're up against windmills, I just wanted to chime in and say thank you. Your comment was wel reasoned and to the point. The person it responded to will not likely learn, but it's a good example on how one can voice a reaction. Have a nice day.

Peer review is still a thing.

If your peer review process is just a rubber stamp, then you're already fucking it up whether AI writes the code or not.

If anyone is blindly accepting AI code, they deserve what they get.

I've found that AI is a great copywriter. It can write copy. I turn into an editor, accepting or rejecting things.

This is faster, and usually ends up with equal or greater quality, and absolutely meets functional requirements, testing requirements, and the stated "definition of done."

If the Democrats get the House, then we will at least start seeing some government oversight again. They can hold hearings, subpoena people to appear, and generally dig into all the shit that the current spineless GOP twatwaffles refuse to look at.

Enforcement is still not an option, because the best they can do is refer criminal cases to the DoJ who can summarily ignore them, especially if the Attorney General still thinks of himself as Trump's lawyer instead of the Peoples' lawyer.

The best we can hope for is total gridlock while they drag all his shit through the street in preparation for 2028.

It should surprise absolutely nobody that he wants to rent-seek to get a taste of the Wall Street TACO trade...