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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social

12/23/2025, 5:33:04 AM

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Microsoft is using AI to replace all their C/C++ code with Rust by 2030. Is that actually possible? What could go wrong? Microsoft’s strategy relies on a new "North Star" metric: 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. 😱

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf/

Rust is good, but this approach seems incredibly difficult. Given the risk of AI hallucinations, aiming for a million lines of code per developer feels like an 'Apollo-program' level of difficulty and an excessive task 😱

A screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Galen Hunt, a Microsoft employee. The post details a goal to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030 by using AI and algorithmic infrastructure to translate large codebases into Rust at a scale of "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code."

konair @konair@mastodon.social

12/23/2025, 8:01:58 AM

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115767245843883385

@nixCraftnixCraft 🐧 so they are replacing potential memory safety issues with logic bugs... and since the AI will probably use unsafe anyway, get new memory safety issues.

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