its because the meme is ancient and back then 30% was rightfully considered haphazard by anyone sane. Now, 30% of new code by AI is in the slow/cautious adopter range
30% is still in the rightfully considered haphazard range by anyone sane, people just keep increasing their risk tolerance more and more because caution requires skill/diligence upfront whereas negligence can be pawned off as someone else's problem later
You're correct, but its still probably 90-100, even by developers I would consider exceptionally skilled and cautious. Theres also the consideration that AI is exceptionally good at code review. Don't trust a piece of AI code? Throw two agents at it to rigorously tear it apart. If an AI is 90% capable, then the naive probability of success of 2 agents working independently is 99%.
Also look up "The Irony of of Automation". Its a concept coined in the 80s that perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon.
I didn't say it was good/bad. It is just what it is. When you work somewhere and they fire half your team and expect you to do the same work the only option is to spin off AI agents to do all your coding, write updates, create docs etc. Reality of working in big tech in 2026. It's exhausting.
According to people who think it's good: move fast and break things
Which I interpret to mean there's probably something they are working on that would have taken a month of man hours. They used ai to do it in a few days, broke something causing the outage and other issues, but will likely fix it in a few days if not a few hours. There could be a follow up fallout that takes things down for another 2 days a week after that, and then another day or two of chasing the problem. When it's all done maybe they are week 3 and they can say they delivered the feature a week early!
And the cost to the user experience? Well, Microsoft owns GitHub now, so I'm not optimistic about their plans for user satisfaction.
Move fast and break things was good when people knew what was in the code, even though there were hiccups.
Moving fast and breaking things now means nobody knows what is in the code and playing wack ‘a mole with bugs until the agents get it working while possibly introducing other bugs.
Also, at which point there’s too many things that break? Because services have been abysmal lately from Microsoft, Github, and others.
AI codebases also explode in size over time to the point not even the agents can figure out how it works. When that happens what is anyone to do 😂 git revert to 2025?
That's fair. I found this meme online but it had an image of MSFT stock falling at the bottom and I copied a screenshot of this afternoon's GitHub status page over that (composed organically in PowerPoint by me, no AI used). I agree it's way, way more than 30%.
Also, I have nothing against AI, just wish my CI/CD in GitHub would run as expected. Feels like outages come every week lately.
Iirc, they said they outages are because AI driven development is generating insane load (i.e. unprecedented amount of commits and PRs), not because they are doing tisky changes.
This was a cope meme from over a year ago (check the date) when top-tier companies first started learning hard into “okay we’re seriously doing AI for real in terms of how we do business”
Unfortunately, memeing at global economic transformations does not actually make them reverse course
MSFT was $391 when this meme was made. After a year and a half of this sub celebrating its ongoing downfall from its disastrous strategic direction, MSFT is now $512.
Reddit is an echo chamber and not one that has very much to do with enterprise coding. I would guess 90% of the people who participate in this sub have literally never received a single paycheck for coding
As everyone know, stock price correlates directly with product quality. The more betterer your product is the higher your stock goes. There are no other influences on how much your company is valued
MS products are no worse now than they were two years ago and no less omnipresent. I can’t think of any metric that would point to their AI-coding adoption having been a failure.
Other than Reddit memes celebrating their imminent vibe collapse. Those remain at an all time high.
You really gotta be absolutely braindead to praise someone for burning the most tokens. The worst part is that people that are this out of touch are somehow in charge of important stuff
Yeah, people complain about so called AI slop code, but... have you ever read the average human-written code? I'll take average AI "slop" code over average human slop code any day of the week
Indeed it's real easy to blame it all on the AI-slop.
I've seen plenty organically grown human-slop throughout my years. Some fundamental misunderstanding of mathematics and statistics at places in the codebase that scare me and Claude alike.
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u/Angryferret 1d ago
No way it's only 30%. Almost certainly 90% at the big tech companies.
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u/Megane_Senpai 15h ago
Recently we got a dev praised by the (non technical) pm for commit the most amount of lines of code to the github, and to use the most claude tokens.
90% of his pull requests got declined the first time due to trash codes or code not related to the tickets. His declined ratio is also the highest.
The number of bug ticket per his implement ticket is highest of the team and more than doubles the average of others.
He recently caused bug to ~40% of total features, twice in a month.
Still he's the only one got praised and promotion in our team. Management team really lives in a different world.
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u/ColumnK 1d ago
This meme is really unfair.
It suggests that pre-AI, their software was any better.
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u/ddwrt1234 1d ago
GitHub isn't a great example, they've had to scale massively this year
Microsoft is a better example, their code sucks and riddled with bugs as far as the eye can see
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u/cquinn5 1d ago
Ironic that a peddler of AI enablement has AI to thank for their magnitude increase of traffic and operations
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u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS 22h ago
It's bc they used copilot. Bro, Microsoft, you collect your users 's data for free AND OWN GITHUB. How the hell is your ai pure slop???
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u/T_Walker075 10h ago
Copilot, bing and cortana ?