>“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.’”
Article is out of date (including it being days old news already) but the guy updated his LinkedIn post walking back some of the statements.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:
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[ 30.2 ms ] story [ 774 ms ] thread>“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...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46381813