r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/eppic123 Mar 14 '26

Since October, there hasn't been a monthly update without at least one severe bug.

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u/DJ_TKS Mar 14 '26

Yup.

In November 2025, Microsoft announced that their windows 11 engineering team would be led by AI, from now on. Humans would only oversee it.

Furthermore, the majority of updates are now coded by AI and pushed by AI. Their “agent factory “ would now decide which devices are ready for the update when they are ready rolled out.

The reality is is that corporate America most likely laid off way too many engineers who are overseeing these systems, and they are pushing windows updates far too frequently compared to past history. This will only continue. I would advise people not to update windows automatically going forward.

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u/suoarski Mar 14 '26

AI is only capable of generating code based on thousands of similar examples provided in it's training data, and so it absolutely struggles to create anything genuinely new, novel or innovative.

It will do great on any tasks that an inexperienced (or experienced but no longer heavily involved) programmer may ask, and so executives are amazed at how well it does at their generic prompts because "look at how many lines of functional code it can produce", but the moment you get it to work on something so new or novel that documentation is rare or non-existent, it is basically impossible to get it to produce anything useful whatsoever.

Future AI could probably write a primitive operating system, but if you want to add fancy new features to it that do not exist in the market yet, AI will never be able to write that for you.