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Programmers bore brunt of Microsoft layoffs as AI writes up to 30% of its code

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/programmers-bore-the-brunt-of-microsofts-layoffs-in-its-home-state-as-ai-writes-up-to-30-of-its-code/
7•coffeecups•8h ago

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taylodl•8h ago
I just commented last week that we should expect a 2.5% to 5% reduction in IT staff pretty much across the board as a result of AI. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916814#43918067)

Companies are always looking for ways to reduce staff, or direct existing staff to new roles and avoid hiring.

nothercastle•7h ago
A 2% reduction is one less hour long meeting a week. Any company especially one as big as Microsoft could do that and not notice
taylodl•6h ago
And if you can utilize a hot, new buzzword for allowing you to make the cuts then your stock performs better as well.
ashoeafoot•8h ago
And yet it releases nothing new and big
SonOfKyuss•8h ago
If they really are getting the same amount of productivity with less staff, they’re probably pretty happy with that
bediger4000•8h ago
Agreed! But the rest of us may be discontented. This might let more agile, human powered competition slip through the cracks.
abhiyerra•7h ago
I’ve been using Microsoft 365 stuff recently and everything seems to be getting worst. Teams has had some new odd bugs, Sharepoint still doesn’t show a site after it was created, OneDrive syncing is still garbage.

Show HN: Solidis – Tiny TS Redis client, no deps, for serverless

https://github.com/vcms-io/solidis
1•jayl-e-e•3m ago•0 comments

Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql
2•richards•13m ago•0 comments

A Ledger in PostgreSQL Is Fast

https://www.pgrs.net/2025/05/16/pgledger-in-postgresql-is-fast/
1•pgr0ss•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has LLM prompting changed how you interact with people?

1•bredren•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: localflux – Flux CD based local K8s development

https://github.com/csnewman/localflux
1•csnewman•18m ago•0 comments

The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques

https://jcgt.org/
2•ibobev•20m ago•0 comments

Objective pain score? Here's the problem with that

https://theconversation.com/objective-pain-score-heres-the-problem-with-that-255063
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

In Their Final Moments, a Pompeii Family Fought to Survive

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/science/pompeii-vesuvius-family.html
1•gmays•23m ago•0 comments

Black Mirror script idea – Groomer

https://blog.xot.nl/2025/05/13/black-mirror-script-idea-groomer/index.html
1•raybb•23m ago•0 comments

Wine 10.8 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.8
2•neustradamus•23m ago•0 comments

Why We're Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technology/what-is-agi.html
1•ripe•24m ago•0 comments

Why is Windows Compressed Folders support stuck at the turn of the century? (2018)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=98755
1•michalpleban•27m ago•0 comments

In-depth look at CRDs how they work and how they are registered

https://skarlso.github.io/2025/05/12/in-depth-look-at-crds-and-how-they-work-under-the-hood/
2•skarlso•28m ago•1 comments

Sequels: Hubris, Distraction, and Obsession

https://bengarney.com/2025/05/15/sequels/
2•bengarney•30m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding: When 'Good Enough' Is Great

https://derwiki.medium.com/agentic-coding-when-good-enough-is-actually-great-d9838abfc367
1•derwiki•31m ago•0 comments

54 years ago, a programmer fixed a bug – and created an existential crisis

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/blinking-cursor-history
2•CharlesW•36m ago•0 comments

Strands Agents SDK – AWS Open Source Agents Developer Kit

https://strandsagents.com/0.1.x/
3•samx18•38m ago•0 comments

Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/14/1116395/why-climate-researchers-are-taking-the-temperature-of-mountain-snow/
1•gnabgib•39m ago•0 comments

I think about C99 strict aliasing rules

https://alanwu.space/post/strict-aliasing/
2•fanf2•41m ago•0 comments

The Giftschrank

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-giftschrank/
1•drankl•42m ago•0 comments

TikTok Hosts Deceptive 'Shark Tank' Clips – For Profit

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/tiktok-hosts-deceptive-shark-tank-clips-for-profit
2•ilamont•43m ago•0 comments

Methodical Banality

https://aeon.co/essays/who-needs-ai-text-generation-when-theres-erasmus-of-rotterdam
9•CharlesW•43m ago•1 comments

'We Are the Most Rejected Generation'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/rejection-college-youth.html
1•whack•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are you doing to prepare for the AI takeover of SE?

1•roflyear•44m ago•1 comments

Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping of Space Industry and Solar System Civilization

https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03238
1•Teever•46m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Released a Coding Tool to 'Help' Programmers Replace Their Jobs

https://gizmodo.com/openai-just-released-a-coding-tool-to-help-programmers-replace-their-jobs-probably-2000603414
1•megamike•46m ago•0 comments

Japan enacts new Active Cyberdefense Law allowing for offensive cyber operations

https://therecord.media/japan-enacts-new-law-allowing-offensive-cyber-operations
1•aspenmayer•47m ago•1 comments

Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
2•randomdrake•48m ago•0 comments

Please stop calling databases CP or AP

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-databases-cp-or-ap.html
2•StefanBatory•48m ago•0 comments

Gophyr: Building a Gopher Client for Zephyr with Claude

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/gophyr-gopher-for-zephyr
1•tyhoff•49m ago•0 comments