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Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welc...

"Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes."

So that would mean 100 000 000 000 (100 billion) lines of code per month. Frightening.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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post #6

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

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Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#13
Explains why Windows updates have been more broken than usual lately.

But I guess having my computer randomly stop working because a billion dollar corporation needs to save money by using a shitty text generation algorithm to write code instead of hiring competent programmers is just the new normal now.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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post #6

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welc... "Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes." So that would mean 100 000 000 000 (100 billion) lines of code per month. Frightening.

Absurd. The Linux kernel is 30 million, Postgres is 2, windows is assumed to be about 50.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#15
post #13

Explains why Windows updates have been more broken than usual lately. But I guess having my computer randomly stop working because a billion dollar corporation needs to save money by using a shitty text generation algorithm to write code instead of hiring competent programmers is just the new normal now.

I switched to Ubuntu last week for my desktop. First time in my 25+ year career I’ve felt like Microsoft was wasting my time more than administering a Linux desktop would take. The slop effect is real.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welc... "Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes." So that would mean 100 000 000 000 (100 billion) lines of code per month. Frightening.

Absurd. The Linux kernel is 30 million, Postgres is 2, windows is assumed to be about 50.

No, no. 100 trillion lines of code per day is great! The only thing better would be 200 trillion ;)

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welc... "Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes." So that would mean 100 000 000 000 (100 billion) lines of code per month. Frightening.

Absurd. The Linux kernel is 30 million, Postgres is 2, windows is assumed to be about 50.

Maybe it means "LOCs changed"?

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#18
post #6

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

They took the stupidest metric ever and made a moronic target out of it.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#19
post #6

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welc... "Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes." So that would mean 100 000 000 000 (100 billion) lines of code per month. Frightening.

More likely those 100k engineers would shrink to 10k.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#20
post #6

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

Looks like the guy who posted that updated his post to say he was just talking about a research project he is working on.
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