- Microsoft posted a simple flex about Copilot on X
- It read: “Copilot completes your code before you finish your coffee.”
- The subsequent responses are something to scroll through, including comments on whether this is why Windows 11’s updates are so buggy
Microsoft is keen to push the strengths of AI – as Windows 11 is firmly on the path to a future with Copilot and various AI agents – and a new post about X is creating even more controversy.
In case you missed it, there’s been a pretty negative reaction from many quarters surrounding the recent revelations of the new AI features Microsoft is bringing to Windows 11 (including agent AI, one of the latest buzzwords).
Ignoring the furor in a rather unwise way that Windows Latest reports, the official Microsoft account on X posted a simple flex as follows: “Copilot will complete your code before you finish your coffee.”
Intel was on board with the idea immediately, and Team Blue’s business account on X responded saying, “Now THAT IS productivity!”
Unfortunately for Microsoft, almost everyone else who posted a response wasn’t so happy. In fact, some of the myriad responses to Microsoft’s boast are so cold that if words could be used as exotic cooling for a record-breaking overclock attempt, we’d have a 10GHz CPU in town (well, not quite, but you get the point).
The first comeback posted is actually a touch of minor genius from a graphic designer: “I can finish my coffee before right-click > Task Manager opens.”
And then cue the many people who can’t help asking if that’s why Windows 11 breaks after every update or if Copilot is finalizing the Windows 11 code and how that would explain a lot.
Analysis: timing is everything
There are many comments about whether the Copilot post-processing code has anything to do with the state of Windows 11 and errors, in fact, but this is not a new thing. In pretty much every post I’ve seen on the likes of Reddit or X about a Windows update having a bug, someone has chimed in at some point to say that the AI is probably to blame. This all goes back to earlier this year, when CEO Satya Nadella informed us that up to 30% of Microsoft’s coding was done by AI.
So, at a time when there’s still an active backlash reverberating across online forums everywhere caused by how Microsoft is pushing to get more AI into Windows 11, you can see how it looks pretty tone-deaf for company employees on social media to post something like this. This is the problem with what’s happened here, regardless of Copilot’s actual coding competence, or lack thereof, which is the other major source of pot-shots taken in response to Microsoft’s post.
Regarding the latter, arguably Copilot, or AI more broadly, can be a useful tool when coding. Programmers use it for more grunt tasks, although among coders there are arguments and doubts about even using AI for that (and how it promotes bad practices in general).
The broader concern is that using AI to help with coding will make people lazy over time and erode basic skills—ultimately leading to a programming world where AI takes over more and humans increasingly struggle to understand code and be able to effectively debug it when problems arise.
All of these sound like valid concerns, but for now Microsoft simply needs to temper the outright enthusiasm for AI features and read the room. Because the latest developments with Windows 11 still leave some people feeling stumped as to where this is all going — and why Microsoft isn’t addressing what they see as much more pressing issues in Windows 11, namely fixing existing problems and cracking down on bugs.
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