There are solid indicators that say writing software via prompt takes quite a bit more skill than doing it directly. At least if your software should be secure, maintainable and usable. Of course, Microslop is aiming for neither of these qualities...

From the continued enshittification of their products, I thought MS was already doing everything with "AI"?

Microsoft has made sure they are fundamentally incapable of hiring competent people. It is not compatible with their business model.

Microsoft has no employees left that know how to make a quality product anyways.

At this time, the only hope for that is a competitor that grows large enough and will take a decade or two to become as crap as YT.

Yes. Deep enshittification is their real problem. As soon as some competitor manages to get big enough, YouTube is simply dead.

Personally, I have a small number of people that I follow and everybody else I do not even look at. Too much slop. And the re-recommendation of videos I actually have looked at is insane. Like somebody made a decision to save money on data-storage instead of offering a basic feature that everybody will want.

I wonder how that will work out for them in the long run?

Probably. But why would they get rid of all the people that could actually have done better and make good products? This way they will only have a shell left that will do even worse. Can they really be this extremely stupid? I guess they actually are.

Obviously. But it is the most extremely stupid way to do it because you are going to lose everybody that you actually critically need. Some immediately, some when they see the whole company has gone to shit. And these people usually have no trouble finding jobs where they get treated better.

I by now firmly believe that the economics grads behind this level of stupid cannot see individual people as valuable. They see everybody just as resource to be used and they see them as essentially the same. That any large company has a relatively small group of people that are critical and that make it all work (and it is not the economics graduates) is just something these morons do not understand. And hence while they certainly will get their numbers adjusted by this measure, the inevitable side-effects will kill the whole venture slowly.

Generative AI cannot produce reasonable quality without talented and experienced people to do the prompting. And they will lose all of those now, because it is exactly these people that have no trouble finding jobs where they are treated better.

Indeed. Definitely a plus for society.

Will take a few years to become painfully obvious, but with this level of concentrated stupid, they will lose the few people that can actually make good products in their space.

Well, as I have said multiple times now, amateur hour in IT and IT security is finally over. If nothing else substantial comes out of the LLM craze (and it looks like that) I will call that overall a win.

That Helium is "trash quality" and apparently there is no reasonable way to refine it to the quality needed for semoconductor manufactoring.

You cannot actually stockpile Helium for semiconductor production, it does not keep its purity level long enough. Than is another reason why the war with Iran is so utterly dumb. But when the chief pedo has to hide what he did ...