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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?


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




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