There are huge swaths of azure engineering teams that deploy things entirely manually via azure portal. Insane.

roncesvalles 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even as recently as 2022 (when I used to work there), infra-as-code use at Microsoft was still very nascent and non-standard. Infra at Microsoft was mostly "ClickOps", with a ton of tribal undocumented knowledge about the right order to do things, changing the defaults, and things like that.

The amount of times we've had to reach out to an experienced person who had transferred to another team/org about processes in our team was ridiculous.

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zombot 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I suspect there's also a good amount of LLMs/Agents in the mix. They have been rechristened to Microslop for a reason.

	▲	atom058 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is nothing micro about the amount of slop. MacroSlop.

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beoberha a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe years ago but definitely not today. But nice FUD

	▲	Phileosopher 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How much of it is deployed with nondeterministic tooling, though? I remember their customer-side push for semantically merging Office and some other suites into something-or-other like 365 or Copilot, creating enormous confusion. I have difficulty believing MSFT distinguishes between handmade and machine-learning tooling in that type of environment.