The simple fact that they have to deny it, meaning such an absurd is widely considered plausible, is already a sign of their reputation.

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Spooky23 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you used Microsoft software lately? After they fired the testing people a few years ago, the number of regressions I find at work is nuts.

	▲	hawaiianbrah an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The testing thing happened like, 10 years ago at this point.

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dralley 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nah. It's only a sign that people read way too much into random speculative Linkedin posts.

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j-o-m 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t understand this view point. How is anyone reading ‘way too much’ into the post based on what’s being discussed in this thread. A senior engineer leading a team at Microsoft saying that his goal is to rewrite/replace all C and C++ code with Rust using AI to facilitate the work is plainly saying what the comments in this thread are reacting to. No onenis reading into the statement, just plain reading. And even though it’s been edited since attention got focused on it, the post still says a goal for his team is 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.

Further, this is not a random speculative post, it is an announcement for a job opening on the posters team.

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dralley 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Microsoft has thousands of senior engineers and one of them engaging in this project and perhaps hiring a small handful of people does not equate to a large company-wide planned mandate.

	▲	j-o-m 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is true, there is a lot of emphasis being placed on his post as though it were the embodiment of Microsoft’s goals and policies going forward. I was a little surprised that he is just a lead on a research team from the bombastic tone of the post. I’ll own up to not considering that when I wrote my comment, still think discussing Microsoft’s seemingly head first dive into massive AI generation of code is entertaining, even if it is not really as important (or important at all) as it would be if this was a post from the CEO.

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1gn15 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gee whiz, what an interesting way of thinking. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

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fragmede 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Too bad they aren't Google and announced in on April fool's and get to claim that it was just a joke if it turns out it didn't land well.