Microsoft engineers privately admit: layers of unread AI code are piling up

burny_tech · x · 2026-11-14

In a discussion sparked by the Microsoft outage, multiple engineers describe how companies keep stacking layer after layer of unread AI-generated code. Engineers are measured on speed, system ignorance explodes, and nobody admits the problem because it makes you a "defector." Privately, engineers agree: "This is fucking crazy, right?"

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