[fortranfiend]

Patches have been a mess the last couple years. Makes me think someone or a group of people either quit, were fired, or got pulled into the ai side of the business. The mistakes being made are that of junior programmers without a proper lead or review and testing team. That plus removal of features and addition of too much telemetry into the os and office products.

[AraceliHarker]

The high number of bugs in Windows patches has little to do with AI. As The Register reported, the root cause is Microsoft's mass layoff of dedicated QA staff and its switch from a waterfall to an agile software development methodology in 2014.

[andy_ppp]

Nobody does Agile correctly anywhere, certainly not large companies like Microsoft so I don't think the methodology itself is the reason!

[unyttigfjelltol]

My guess: they vibe-coded the integrations between the new and old M365 components. Baffling lack of cross-component integration, all apparent only when you actually try to use it as intended.