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Microsoft Struggles to Fix Massive Outlook/365 Outage After Hours of Disruption
Online commenters speculate AI-written code is to blame
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Amid the outage, social posts and comments pointed to Microsoft's prior disclosure that a large share of its code is AI-generated, drawing comparisons to a similar AWS incident linked to an AI agent.
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“I think it's only fair, then, to ask how much "AI" contributed to this outage.”
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Outlook and other # Microsoft services seem to be experiencing a massive outage: https:// status.cloud.microsoft/m365/re ferrer=serviceStatusRedirect Over a year ago Satya Nadella bragged about how 30% of new MS code is slop: https://www. cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nade lla-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html I think…
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