You can literally one-shot Opus 4.6 to make a better, faster, safer, more secure notepad.exe than the one that comes with Windows.
This isn't an AI slop problem.
You can literally one-shot Opus 4.6 to make a better, faster, safer, more secure notepad.exe than the one that comes with Windows.
This isn't an AI slop problem.
Well, it might be "more secure" in the sense of "no hacker will use it as an attack vector", not necessarily "it is free of security of security bugs".
Tools are almost never the problem.
The application of tools is.
I 100% agree. I'm just trying to point out the problem isn't Microsoft AI slopping their software. Even if you slopped it, the software could turn out better than what they're putting out.
There must be something much worse than slop going on to get to this point.
What most people don't realise is that this enshittification has been ongoing since a long time, about the time of Windows 8 and the introduction of "Metro"/UWP apps. The Control Panel was the first victim - replaced by the shitty Settings app which we saw in Win10. But along the way, MS have been slowly replacing the good ol' small and fast win32 apps with highly bloated UWP versions. It's not just Notepad now, every core Windows app is a UWP app.
People don't realise how much bloat this is. The new Snipping tool for instance is 449 MEGABYTES, whereas it used to be only a few KB in size. Same with Paint, Calculator etc - all bloated UWP apps.
UWP was a mistake, they should've stuck to win32, at least for core apps.
Notepad and mspaint have now copilot integration. With full authentication integration that will likely fail for people in corporate environment.
That's a slop if you ask me. Even if it wasn't vibe coded, it now want's me to vibe use it. Who the hell wanted that.
It's good ole enshittification, which became common at least a decade before the term vibe coding was coined.