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[–] 193 points 10 months ago (9 children)

“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft distinguished engineer Galen Hunt wrote in a recent LinkedIn post.

“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

Well, I expect it'll be exciting, one way or another.

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You know it's going to be successful when they go back to using antiquated productivity measurements like measuring based on lines of code in a time frame. We all know AI is fucking spectacular at generating overly verbose code.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Enshittification does not mean making things suck in general. It specifically means the business model of making a good product for users, then making the product bad for users and good for advertisers or data purchasers or retailers or whatever, and then when you have a captured market, making it worse for everyone to squeeze more money faster.

    Microsoft is not doing this. They might be sucking, and making a worse product, but it’s not following the enshittification playbook.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I always love how business bros use the term "Algorithm(s)" (and now also "AI") as if that was just a magic incantation or something that you just switch on and it immediately solves whatever problem you might have.

    All that's needed is that the wizard comes up with the right spell and then everything just works and the business is generating infinite money!

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