Steven Sinofsky
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5,281 appearances
13 recordings
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 25 Aug
Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We went through a whole 20 years of building software where we actually never really knew why it crashed.
It just crashed and we went, oh, software crashes.
Let's make a list of all the places it crashes and fix the top 10.
And then one day we said, well, why?
We literally didn't say this.
Someone said, why don't we just write a program such that when it crashes, it uses this new internet thing to tell us that it crashed.
And suddenly we had telemetry and suddenly we had more bugs to fix than we knew it ever existed.
Like we literally went from like, we're shipping, we have no bugs, we're ready to go to, oh my God, we have enough bugs that if we just stopped work, we would just fix bugs for the rest of time.
Yeah.
So when you talk about an AI pause, of course they should slow down.
They should stop adding things and go and add the telemetry, the tools, the logging, the step-by-step debugging, all of the stuff that you would add if your software did anything at all important and you cared if it did it right.
And you read all the bug reports from OpenAI that they just put out yesterday, and it's super clear that they just, they don't know.
And so they, like, if somebody had handed me a bug report, and this is, here's a real bug.
In 1987, the first version of Excel for Windows had a bug in it that somewhere on the disk, it wrote the word send dogs.
S-I-N-D-O-G-S in a particular Windows settings file.
It was like Excel got taken over by demons and it wrote this word to the file.
Nobody knew where that word came from.
Everybody was looking through all the Excel source code to find the word send dogs and to figure out, and no one could find it.
And so somebody said, you know what we're going to do?
We're just going to run Excel brutally nonstop doing a million different things for days on end.
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