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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.

>>bondar+(OP)
Absurd. The Linux kernel is 30 million, Postgres is 2, windows is assumed to be about 50.

>>kace91+c
No, no. 100 trillion lines of code per day is great! The only thing better would be 200 trillion ;)

>>kace91+c
Maybe it means "LOCs changed"?

>>bondar+(OP)
More likely those 100k engineers would shrink to 10k.

>>bondar+(OP)
With those kinds of numbers you don’t need logic anymore, just a lookup table with all possible states of the system.

>>conart+Z
CEO: I want big numbers of things. Big numbers = success.

>>olegan+61
Mutate things so fast cancer looks like stable.

>>bondar+(OP)
Maybe they can use 5 - 10 loc to move the classic window shell button so it's not on top of the widgets button

>>root_a+d2
Thats still 10 billion lines of code per month if that insane metric were a real goal (it’s not).

That’s 200 Windows’ worth of code every month.

>>sarche+N7
Guess Windows 12 is gonna be a bit on the bloated side, Huh?

>>sarche+N7
Totally agreed. The numbers are silly. My only point is that you don't need 100k engineers if you're letting Claude dump all that code into production.

>>olegan+61
Copilot add a space to every line of code in this repository and commit please.

One of the many reasons why it's such a bad practice (overly verbose solutions id another one of course)

>>bondar+(OP)
So the recent surge in demand for storage is to because we have to store that code somewhere?

>>bondar+(OP)
Surely 1 line of code = $1, so Microsoft can get $100b revenue per month. Genius plan.

>>bondar+(OP)
I think the point is that they are fantasizing about cutting their engineering workforce by 90% while maintaining the same level of "productivity".

Claude doesn't require paying payroll tax, health insurance, unemployment, or take family leave.

>>root_a+Yk
That’s definitely true. But I don’t think you need 100k engineers for literally anything.