No, Microsoft, Plagiarism is Not "AI"
"Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI" say folks around the Web, perhaps missing the point that this is just plain old Microsoft propaganda. Maybe a distraction? We also saw a headline that says "AI Is Already Writing About 30% of Code at Microsoft and Google. Here's What It Means for Software Engineers."
Microsoft MSN went ahead with: "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI generates 'fantastic' Python code"...
Classic FOMO tactics! Buy our plagiarism services and products or "miss out!" You will be "left behind!"
They keep talking of "hey hi" (AI).
But what Nadella means to say is, they steal other people's code, remove the licence (and attribution) from it, then poorly plagiarise it (low-quality imitations with defects) and instead of compensating coders they steal from them and pay a few to ameliorate defects.
This isn't about Microsoft being better or more efficient. It's about Microsoft being a monstrous plagiarism generator and producer of lousy, barely tested code while firing many developers. Because it has to, salaries are "expensive".
This will make things we all use less safe, it's not innovation. It's basically slop but for code. Are we better off with articles made by LLM slop and slop images? Consider this fake new article piggybacking the real articles of many others:
Slop image.
Of course the text is also LLM slop, i.e. it's fake, he's a Serial Slopper and "Once You Slop You Can't Stop":
In the next article we'll dive a little deeper into the nonsense, giving some example of the press coverage about Microsoft slop. █