Microsoft is using AI to replace all their C/C++ code with Rust by 2030.

[nixcraft@mastodon.social]

Microsoft is using AI to replace all their C/C++ code with Rust by 2030. Is that actually possible? What could go wrong? Microsoft’s strategy relies on a new "North Star" metric: 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. 😱

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf/

Rust is good, but this approach seems incredibly difficult. Given the risk of AI hallucinations, aiming for a million lines of code per developer feels like an 'Apollo-program' level of difficulty and an excessive task 😱

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@nixCraft maybe I'm fixating too much on words that probably weren't even written by human hands, but I think it's notable that he says "my goal" rather than "our goal". Is this actually a company-wide initiative? is it just this guy's personal bugbear to RIIR all the things? is Galen even a real person, or is this the result of a game of telephone between an engineering manager, a recruiter, and copilot? who can say.