>“Our strategy is to combine AI and
Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s
largest codebases,” he added. “Our
North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month,
1 million lines of code.’”
How are they going to review these million lines of code? It’s not like it’s not possible to write buggy code in Rust
saidnooneever•1mo ago
its a research project by some engineer at MS to see if its possible to do it. its unlikely they will actually do it ,maybe come up with a plan for it if they think its feasible.
ChrisArchitect•1mo ago
Article is out of date (including it being days old news already) but the guy updated his LinkedIn post walking back some of the statements. Update in the original HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46360955)
and then a further discussion:
dangalf•1mo ago
>“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”
Some more context https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/24/microsoft-denies-re...
vjvjvjvjghv•1mo ago
saidnooneever•1mo ago