AI slop broke Windows

I’ve recently been reading about the fact that 30% of the code in Windows has been written by AI. This was in a session at LlamaCon at which M$ CEO Satya Nadella and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg were trying to cajole customer executives to use the M$ AI tools.

That’s an interesting and terrifyingly high number considering the much of the code generated by what is incorrectly called AI is pure garbage.

Just ask the programmers for the curl project about AI slop. Read the original article at arsTECHNICA for more details about the Curl project’s problems with bug reports generated by AI.

AI is touted as a boon for programmers, yet most of the instances I’ve read about seem to produce code that might look good on the surface, but which is pure slop. So anyone using AI to create code should examine such code carefully to understand what it really does, even if the output seems correct in testing.

Worse, training AI with maliciously constructed code will create new threat profiles for programmers using that AI.

All this “clever” programming will bury humons in a pile of AI-generated excrement before we can ever get to real AI.

At the same time, I’m seeing articles indicating that pretty much all Windows core features are broken and have been since the 24H2 update of July 2025.

Along with increased use of AI-generated code, M$ has reduced testing staff as part of their “AI is wonderful so we can get rid of people and save lots of money campaign.” It’s no coincidence that this is coming to a head as the company forces it’s customers to use its so-called AI on every Windows 11 PC on the planet.

Most of you already know I don’t believe that anything we have today is true AI. I’m not sure any more that it’s even clever programming. It all seems quite like stupid programming to me.