Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems

Re:Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems by apercu on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:00PM (#46889185)

> "The biggest issue I see is Microsoft's entire mentality around AI adoption that focuses more on "getting the numbers up" then actually delivering a product people want to use."

That succinctly describes 90% of the economy right now if you just change a word and remove a couple:

The biggest issue I see is the entire mentality that focuses more on "getting the numbers up" than actually delivering a product people want to use.

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Re:Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems by hibikir on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @08:30PM (#46894440)

KPI infection. You see projects whose goal is, say "repos with A I code review turned on" vs "Code review suggestions that were accepted". And then if you do get adoption (like, say, a Claude Code trial), then VPs balk about price. If it's actually expensive now it's because they are actually using it all the time!

The same kind of logic that led companies to migrate from Slack to Teams. Metrics that don't actually look at actual, positive impact, as nobody picks a risky KPI, and will instead pick a useless one that can't miss.

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Re:Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems by apercu on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:05AM (#46898380)

My phone, laptop, TV, fridge, etc., all demonstrably worse than they were 5 years ago.

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