You are assuming Microsoft code base is superior to Linux / Git / MySql / whatever else is in github right now. That is a .... big assumption.
And if Microsoft's code ends up influencing the rest of the world code that would be a .... big downside.
And if Microsoft's code ends up influencing the rest of the world code that would be a .... big downside.
IMO, the long tail of non-code-reviewed, written-by-someone-in-their-first-month-of-coding, barely-even-compiles noob code[0] in Github is going to be orders of magnitude larger than the long tail of crap in Microsoft's internal repos.
[0] Hey, everyone has to start somewhere. There's nothing wrong with your first "hello world" program being buggy - that's what being a beginner means. But it's probably not the sort of code you want to train an LLM on.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft...
The Azure-State-Department breach had nearly a half dozen contributing bugs...
So yeah, assuming Microsoft systems are up to standard or have security reviews or whatever is a .... big assumption.
I dunno; the average project on github isn't code-reviewed, while all the projects at Microsoft are.
How do you get that impression from the comment? I don't see anything implying that.