I’m not sure “computer” was even a profession back at that time.

So, it’s an almost useless dimension with misleading names? Yeah, it’s a good “political compass”.

As you noticed, they have had a quality assurance structure for way longer than 2 years. They’ve had it for close to 20 years now.

When they used to have this philosophy, they did always have something broken on their site, and go out of air once in a while. And they did benefit greatly from the speed they got from it, for a while, until it started being harmful.

The reason Meta could operate that way was because they were a platform for people sending funny texts to each other with no promises of security or privacy.

By the way, even they don’t operate like that anymore.

Kids this days won’t even get a dated reference…

It were they that have been bragging that more than 50% of their code was written by AI, weren’t?

Anyway, that’s counted by lines of code, not in number of mini-vans. They can still use a better statistic.

Well, it won’t come if everybody keeps pushing all the money in the world¹ into LLMs.

1 - Almost literally.

Ok, let’s catalogue every way to get the OP’s interaction sequence…

It also happens when you kept the login form there for too long, or when MS decided you should migrate into another version of the service you were trying to get into. Oh, it also happens when you try to change the Teams organization but it decides to change back for some reason (probably because you clicked at the wrong link).