Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Microsoft’s Edge team has joined the growing list of internal groups saying AI is creating more work than expected. A few weeks ago, the company’s Exchange team said it was so busy finding bugs in AI-generated code that it hadn’t had time to ship a Cumulative Update. Now the browser side says it is feeling the pressure too.

According to the Edge team, AI-assisted coding is helping developers build extensions faster, which means more people are building, changing and submitting them. That is awkward for Microsoft, because it vets extensions before users can install them. And with repeated layoffs already thinning the ranks, there are fewer reviewers available to handle the extra load.

Microsoft had already tried to ease the pressure with an expedited review process for high-quality and high-value extensions. That hasn’t been enough. The team says submission volumes kept rising and the review pipeline came under “additional strain,” which pushed extension review turnaround times up.

The answer, unsurprisingly, is more automation. The Edge team says it has added automated checks for many of the repeatable validation steps in the review process and streamlined how reviews move through the pipeline. It does not say whether that automation uses AI. It does say the standards are unchanged, and that humans are still needed for the messy cases that benefit from judgment.

There’s also a practical upside for extension makers. Microsoft says the tighter process should let it approve and update extensions more quickly, and it will refresh the Featured badge every 15 days instead of less often. That badge goes to add-ons that align with best practices, so the faster cadence should give strong extensions a quicker shot at visibility.