At Roughly 1,100 Patches Microsoft is Still Feeling the Wrath of AI

I saw an article today that someone claimed the AI bug boom is over. I am less optimistic.

I think we will see different bug counts month to month. This month, at 1,094, is less than last month’s 1,400 or so. But it is still 5 times the number of bug fixes we saw pre-AI.

And we have no visibility to the number of bugs in the backlog – those that have been found but not fixed.

I assume that a lot of the low-hanging bugs have been outed but with say 50-100 million lines of code in Windows alone and potentially a billion lines in the ecosystem, and 40 years of “gee, we can’t/don’t want to/don’t have the money to” missing fixes, I predict this is going to go on for a while.

For now, batten down the hatches and patch the new 1,100 bugs this month.

And don’t forget all your other vendors.

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