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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. 😱

linkedin.com/posts/galenh_prin

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."
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva@mastodon.social
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RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1157

this is going to destroy so many systems built on MSWindows that if you are a CTO and not making contingencies to freeze further development on that OS & chart a path to migrate out to , then why are you even in that job.

Microsoft is gonna use an autocorrect on amphetamines to rewrite their O/S? this is absolute madness.

may they go down in flames but not before y’all moved out of their poisoned ecosystem.

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