Full title: Microsoft's distinguished engineer says "typing code is absolutely over," and Windows 11 is already being built that way. Nadella previously said 20-30% code at MSFT is AI-coded, and Windows security updates now include AI-assisted fixes to fight AI-enabled threats.

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[–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wall-E and Idiocracy are becoming more real every day. Over time there will be fewer people capable of understanding the code produced by AI. If this process repeats over decades and if AI isn't able to recursively improve itself without model collapse, eventually we will have the majority of software being built by model collapsing AI with almost no one left to be able to maintain it or even comprehend it. Recipe for disaster...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    "The artifacts of the forerunners are strange and powerful, existing only as energy stored in runes etched on silicon. It is said that a great calamity befell them, destroying their society but leaving racks of these runes behind. Now there is noone left who remembers how they were written."

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