[marcodiego]

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

[Spooky23]

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]

The testing thing happened like, 10 years ago at this point.

[dralley]

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

[j-o-m]

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.

[1gn15]

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

[fragmede]

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.

[rsynnott]

I mean, there was a time when what ultimately became Windows Vista was going to have a largely .net userspace. They also had a project to produce a .net _kernel_. Microsoft doing some weird thing that obviously won’t work out isn’t _that_ hard to believe.