Microsoft enrages developers with cringe tweet that reckons Copilot can finish your code before you finish your coffee

It seems Microsoft can't help itself when it comes to generating negative sentiment when it comes to AI in recent weeks. Just a few days ago, the company came under fire after its Windows lead Pavan Davuluri posted about how the platform was evolving as an agentic OS, which generated such backlash he had to disable replies.

Now, the main @Microsoft account on X has posted a message that reads "Copilot finishing your code before you finish your coffee," and as you might imagine, it hasn't gone down too well. Turns out, the tech community doesn't see vibe coding with Copilot in a positive light.

"This has to be bait. There is no way Microsoft is this out of touch with their user base and developers" says one reply. "Copilot finishing my code isn’t the flex Microsoft thinks it is…" reads another. "It's impressive how out of touch Microsoft manages to be with posts like this," another person says.

The post has over 215K views on X so far, and over 200 replies. A large chunk of the responses are negative, either laughing at Microsoft's inability to read the room, or highlighting how Copilot's coding capabilities aren't actually at a level where you'd feel comfortable letting it build something without spending hours checking it over.

It's clear that Microsoft has a perception problem when it comes to the quality of its products right now. Because Windows 11 is in such a bad state, any efforts to build or hype up AI online are being met with pushback from users who believe the focus should be on fixing Windows first.

A number of replies to the post on X joke that Windows 11 is in the state that it's in because of vibe coding capabilities like what Copilot offers, which often generates poorly optimized code that doesn't always work as intended. This isn't a Copilot-exclusive limitation, all AI chatbots can generate code, but many developers believe none of them are particularly great at it.

But it's clear that these jokes are also what people are starting to believe. Is Windows in the state that it's in because the people who work on it are vibe coding half the time? We'll likely never know, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is on record as stating roughly 30% of all Microsoft code is now generated by AI, which certainly isn't helping Windows' reputation right now.

Do you think the negative responses to Microsoft's recent social media posts are warranted? Let us know in the comments.

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