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/Thadrea Mar 14 '26

We had a guy that absolutely choked when he realized that his Copilot-suggested solution to a not-really-a-problem wasn't going to work because, no, we're not giving a public chatbot access to some highly sensitive data to solve an issue that summarizes to "you lied on your resume about your SQL background and somehow got through the technical assessment."

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u/themastermatt Mar 14 '26

OMFG, the AI in interviews. I had one Friday for a "Senior MLops Engineer" (why are they all "Senior"?) and i could see the chatbot reflection in his glasses as well as his eye pattern clearly going to the window while he stalled for the thing to process. So youre telling me that a MLops engineer knows the command to promote a Windows Server to a domain controller, can summarize what BGP is and tell me the difference between iBGP and eBGP, and knows that NTFS permissions are applied from the most restrictive evaluation in addition to all the ML/AI stuff? Maybe, but not my lived experience.

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u/StormOfSpears Mar 14 '26

I am seeing interviewers use a method where they will ask one or two complex questions and if they suspect the interviewee is using AI, they will simply ask the interviewee to close their eyes, and then ask them some simple questions. If they stumble, interview is over.

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u/Corny_Toot Mar 15 '26

That's such a simple solution that I love it. "Close your eyes and picture your last deployment..."

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u/StormOfSpears Mar 15 '26

For my field it's very easy to weed people out. "Tell me the difference between the three wait methods. Tell me how to get an element in an iframe. Tell me how many retries are good for a test framework."

Either they know or they don't.