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by miffy900 14 days ago
highly unlikely for many of them. SharePoint, bitlocker, Active directory, hyper-v, rdp, DHCP and MSMQ are all software/technologies that have decades of history and long pre-dated LLMs. seriously, do people not realise it was entirely possible to write insecure or bad code before LLMs?
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It’s like people don’t remember the whole outsourcing trend and all the awful code that came from that.
Don't forget the damned interns!
Everyone but me!
Hey, I wrote slop at Microsoft way before it was cool.
> seriously, do people not realise it was entirely possible to write insecure or bad code before LLMs?

Some of these threads make me think every line of code written pre-LLMs was apparently perfect in all ways. Feels like romanticizing the past.

Sure, that's true.

It is also true that Copilot is currently in use developing Bitlocker and Sharepoint. So I wouldn't be confident saying it was one or the other.

Especially if they made heavy use of offshoring, which I would bet they did.
It's funny because SharePoint and AD are so god-forsakenly awful you would think they're vibe coded if you didn't know any better