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I suspect the massive shitshow of Windows 11 and all of its failings is a result of large quantities of vibe code being merged into the OS. People are noticing.

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Windows 11 was released before vibe coding was viable. And the shit show seems to be that they push ads and bloatware on people, not that it doesn't work reliably. Windows 11 IoT LTSC has been absolutely rock solid for me on both machines I have it on. Waaay more stable and reliable than Linux, and even a bit better than Mac (which is also way better than Linux).

If they are vibe coding anything, it hasn't had any bad consequences yet. The ads and bloat are human decisions!

In the last two years Windows 11 has shipped with increasingly serious bugs. Many of my co-workers report needing to reboot a few times a day because issues just compound.

I regularly have major issues with Teams and Outlook. Crashes, not showing messages until hours later, calls dropping every few minutes, and the app just never opening. Just Friday afternoon I could not close Teams from the Task Manager

It's not just "ads" and "bloatware". Recent updates have broken notepad and calculator.

And when exactly did Windows 11 release?

Just because some of Windows 11 was released before Claude Code doesn’t mean that the really shitty stuff from the last year wasn’t vibe-coded garbage.

They didn't need AI to write slop is my point.

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