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I know a lot of devs at MSFT, none of them are required to use AI.
From reading around on Hacker News and Reddit, it seems like half of commentators say what you say, and the other half says "I work at Microsoft/know someone who works at Microsoft, and our/their manager just said we have to use AI", someone mentioned being put on PIP for not "leveraging AI" as well. I guess maybe different teams have different requirements/workflows?
O ya, when I was at Microsoft, everything varied widely by team and organization.
I can imagine there are groups where it is true. I mostly want to push back on the idea that there's one monolithic culture that is Microsoft.