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Absurd. The Linux kernel is 30 million, Postgres is 2, windows is assumed to be about 50.
Maybe it means "LOCs changed"?
Mutate things so fast cancer looks like stable.
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
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Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
#32Microsoft 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.
Which is a bald-faced lie written in response to a PR disaster. The original claims were not ambiguous:
> My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030. Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code”.
Obviously, "every line of C and C++ from Microsoft" is not contained within a single research project, nor are "Microsoft's largest codebases".
Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
#33Microsoft 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.
It is kind of funny that throughout my career, there has always been pretty much a consensus that lines of code are a bad metric, but now with all the AI hype, suddenly everybody is again like “Look at all the lines of code it writes!!” I use LLMs all day every day, but measuring someone or something by the number of lines of code produced is still incredibly stupid, in my opinion.
Microsoft never got that memo. They still measure LoC because it’s all MBAs.
Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
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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.
Linux kernels will all eventually be permeated with AI-gen code as well. It will just take longer to see and feel the effects.
Your argument is in bad faith because you are using false equivalence bias.
Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
#35Microsoft 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.
That’s what MBAs do
Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
#36Explains 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.
You might want to change to Debian or some other distro more radical.
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Eliminate C/C++ in favor of what? Perhaps the plan is to use AI to write plain assembler? Why stop there, maybe let's do prompt in - machine-code out?
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The Copilot-Cli is not so bad, https://github.com/features/copilot/cli
Can't speak for copilot but Gemini cli is unbelievably bad compared to Gemini web. CC has some magic secret sauce and I'm not sure what it is. My company pays for both too, I keep coming back to Claude all-round
Claude Code is one of a very few AI tools where I genuinely think the people at the company who build it use it all the time.
Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Linux kernels will all eventually be permeated with AI-gen code as well. It will just take longer to see and feel the effects.
I'm sure there are a bunch of "Rust is better" people spending all their tokens on rewriting the Linux kernel as we speak.