Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'
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Suleyman took a break from the Copilot company's San Francisco Ignite shindig to [1]exclaim "Jeez there so many cynics!" and calling it "mindblowing" that people are unimpressed with AI.
Suleyman's tweet came after Microsoft [2]posted : "Copilot finishing your code before you finish your coffee."
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Both statements demonstrated how horrendously disconnected the Copilot company is from its users. AI is undoubtedly impressive technology. Setting aside Elon Musk's [4]rather sad application , the advances in artificial intelligence have been jaw-dropping. Pattern identification, for example, has been a boon to science.
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However, being impressed by AI should not be confused with a desire to shoehorn it into every product and service. Microsoft's Ignite event is a perfect illustration of this. Whether a customer likes it or not, Copilot and AI agents are coming, ready to do their bidding, or, as is depressingly more likely, primed to misunderstand their instructions and do something else entirely.
[7]Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats
[8]Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI
[9]Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that's not a Copilot+ PC
[10]Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new 'Digital Signage mode'
Microsoft's Copilot code comment was more of the same. A glance at the [11]responses indicated that developers were less than impressed. It's possible Microsoft meant "finishing your code" in the same way autocomplete might, but judging by comments from CEO Satya Nadella, who said that 30 percent of Microsoft's code was now written by AI, it has loftier ambitions.
Perhaps it is best to look away from the [12]precipitous decline in the quality of the company's output.
Suleyman said: "I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone!" Snake turned up in 1998. Imagine if, just a decade or so earlier, Suleyman had struck up a conversation with the text adventure game engines employed by Infocom and Magnetic Scrolls. Mindblowing, indeed.
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The [14]emissions from Suleyman and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri show a startling disconnect from reality within Microsoft. Customers are not clamoring for more AI in the company's products, and calling people left cold by Copilot and its ilk "cynics" indicates an arrogance and unwillingness to listen to feedback that doesn't align with a particular worldview.
AI can be very impressive. The way Microsoft is forcing the technology onto customers is not. ®
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[1] https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1991179913303363902
[2] https://x.com/Microsoft/status/1990517803250540942
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/ai_force_feeding/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/microsoft_ai_agents_ignite/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/microsoft_virtual_pc_update/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/windows_bsod_digital_signage_mode/
[11] https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1991179913303363902
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/microsoft_lacks_quality_control/
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[14] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/windows_agentic_os_feedback/
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Micro- and Soft- Brain ?
When they let that Ifrit out of the bottle some things were clearly left behind—a non·existent grip on reality for starters.
" Jeez there so many cynics! " " "mindblowing" that people are unimpressed with AI. "—Funny that. Never considered asking why ?
" Copilot finishing your code before you finish your coffee. "—Not now. Not ever. I would give up coffee† before then.
† perhaps not. :)
30 percent of Microsoft's code was now written by AI
Explains 100% of Microsoft releases lately.
Re: 30 percent of Microsoft's code was now written by AI
MS 'Reality Distortion Field' once again ... in the current climate with such doubt about 'AI' would you admit that MS generates 30% of their code by 'AI' when the last 'few' releases of fixes have been a disaster !!!
The 'AI' hype has now reached a self-perpetuating state in MS-land where it no longer needs to prove it works, that is now a given ... because it needs to be to enable the marketing drones to be unleashed !!!
The 'AI' bubble is very very close to bursting ... it is now a matter of will Google and MS, amongst others, 'frighten' the rest of the commercial world into fearing the consequences if they 'see this 'AI' emperor has no clothes' !!!
Careers and huge profits are at risk, watch the 'AI' beast do everything in its power to keep conning the masses that all is well and your life NEEDS 'AI' in it !!!
:)
Re: 30 percent of Microsoft's code was now written by AI
Looking forward to the AI-generated Reality Distortion Field, coupled to an AI-conducted legal proofread before its AI-generated publicity campaign. What can possibly go wrong?
Enough.
Setting aside Elon Musk's rather sad application, the advances in artificial intelligence have been jaw-dropping.
You know, I'm kind of done humoring this sentiment. I'm with [1]this guy whenever someone in the media makes this sort of assertion: Which “artificial intelligence” are people talking about when they say that AI advances are… whatever? Are you talking about protein-folding? Computer vision? Reinforcement learning? Chatbots? What?
We've already got the CEO of Hugging Face trying to distance [2]“artificial intelligence” from the bubble that he claims is caused by LLMs , but he was perfectly happy to keep mum and reap the benefits of the mania related to AI when everyone was being so breathless about how AI was set to revolutionize/destroy everything. Well, you can't back away from the fact that MechaHitler is seen as the same category of software as “real AI”. Everyone — and I include El Reg in this! — was perfectly happy talking about “artificial intelligence” having “monumental advances” while at the same time being quiet when Microsoft, Open AI, Google, Amazon and everyone shoving slop machines to consumers' faces, use “AI” as an excuse to fire and immiserate folk, and pollute the world and push us into climate disaster.
I've seen really good definitions of “artificial intelligence” — one by [3]Ali Al-Khatib (“an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power”) and another by Rua M Williams' book, [4]Disabling Intelligences (quoted [5]here as “a blanket term applied to any system that claims to supplement, reproduce, or replace human actions, decision making, or reasoning”) that focus on AI's effects to people and their material circumstances, and I'm going with those… and as far as I'm concerned, MechaHitler is “real” AI, and everyone who shilled for “real” AI systems will have to sit with the fact that they enabled bastards like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, and all the monsters who fouled up our ecosystem and our ways of consensus and finding meaning so that Line Go Up.
You lot made your bed. Go lie in it .
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ajyr5VzS0
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/hugging-face-ceo-says-were-in-an-llm-bubble-not-an-ai-bubble/
[3] https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai
[4] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-02665-1
[5] https://bsky.app/profile/cgsunit.bsky.social/post/3m5f4knacqk22
Re: Enough.
Not one sad application [1]but two .
However much money he has, Musk can't stop being the world's biggest loser.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/21/elon-musk-grok-ai-bias-ranks-richest-man-fittest-smartest
"Copilot finishing your code before you finish your coffee."
A bit like saying "My four-year old finished deocorating the bedroom while I made coffee" after you left them unsupervised for ten minuutes and they spread the paint all over the walls, floor, furniture and themselves with their hands.
or "We let a big orange moron with the IQ and social graces of a middle school bully and a narcism mental handicap run the country for 4 years "
I thought I'd ask the enterprise Copilot about some DB2 syntax
That's an hour of my life I'm not going to get back. It mixed up z/OS and LUW and then proceeded just to make shit up and when I finished by telling it to fuck off and stop wasting my time, it replied that help is available for self harm.
So yes, I am an AI cynic. If the tool were sold just as an internal document search which cited sources to be checked by the user which it would have the happy side effect of forcing companies to document their software and processes better. As a chat line to some all-knowing oracle it's absolutely not worth the billions being thrown at it or the jobs lost and the bubble can't pop soon enough. I really do hope MS have bitten off more they can chew and get holed below the waterline when it pops.
Re: I thought I'd ask the enterprise Copilot about some DB2 syntax
Same here, for things that I actually need some help with, it does absolutely shit with, making crap up and going in circles, when saying that's incorrect, and it proposes another answer, which is also incorrect and when said, it says the first thing that it proposed, which i already said was incorrect.
Job is only 50% done
Artificial: Yes
Intelligence: No
Reality is an illusion ...
... caused by lack of AI.
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Is M$ living in an alternative universe?
Is the air in their offices contaminated with a powerful hallucogen?
More likely the vision of $$$$ overrides all other considerations.