The AI factor here is interesting to me.
I don't know if AI is the cause of software quality decline at MS or even Nvidia. My guess is that it is really (like all things) a leadership issue, but AI could be a big part too.
What is wild to me is that for me on a small team in a small company AI has been a boon to software cleanup, security, quality. I'm not blindly letting AI run amok, I read and test everything it outputs. Even with that I'm moving much faster and cleaning up misc security bits that I knew existed / just couldn't get around to faster than ever.
The contrast between my personal experience and the big corp "we're doing everything with AI" sermons while we watch quality take a nosedive is interesting.
More to the point of the article, yeah my Microsoft experience when it comes to Windows has been almost universally negative for years now. It's sad to say as I still fondly remember the days of Start Me Up, and even if uncool I used to love working in Windows. Now it feels like an OS pointed AT me that I have to dodge every change :(
