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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welcome-to-the-engineering-at-microsoft-blog/ 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.

clickety_clack 9mo ago
With those kinds of numbers you don’t need logic anymore, just a lookup table with all possible states of the system.
torben-friis 9mo ago
Absurd. The Linux kernel is 30 million, Postgres is 2, windows is assumed to be about 50.
- conartist6 9mo ago
  No, no. 100 trillion lines of code per day is great! The only thing better would be 200 trillion ;)
  - Eddy_Viscosity2 9mo ago
    CEO: I want big numbers of things. Big numbers = success.
- oleganza 9mo ago
  Maybe it means "LOCs changed"?
  - mjevans 9mo ago
    Mutate things so fast cancer looks like stable.
  - wolvoleo 9mo ago
    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)
root_axis 9mo ago
More likely those 100k engineers would shrink to 10k.
- sarchertech 9mo ago
  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.
  - amarant 9mo ago
    Guess Windows 12 is gonna be a bit on the bloated side, Huh?
  - root_axis 9mo ago
    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.
    - sarchertech 9mo ago
      That’s definitely true. But I don’t think you need 100k engineers for literally anything.
FergusArgyll 9mo ago
Maybe they can use 5 - 10 loc to move the classic window shell button so it's not on top of the widgets button
torginus 9mo ago
So the recent surge in demand for storage is to because we have to store that code somewhere?
falloutx 9mo ago
Surely 1 line of code = $1, so Microsoft can get $100b revenue per month. Genius plan.
petcat 9mo ago
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.

clickety_clack 9mo ago

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

torben-friis 9mo ago

Absurd. The Linux kernel is 30 million, Postgres is 2, windows is assumed to be about 50.

conartist6 9mo ago
No, no. 100 trillion lines of code per day is great! The only thing better would be 200 trillion ;)
- Eddy_Viscosity2 9mo ago
  CEO: I want big numbers of things. Big numbers = success.
oleganza 9mo ago
Maybe it means "LOCs changed"?
- mjevans 9mo ago
  Mutate things so fast cancer looks like stable.
- wolvoleo 9mo ago
  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)

root_axis 9mo ago

More likely those 100k engineers would shrink to 10k.

sarchertech 9mo ago
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.
- amarant 9mo ago
  Guess Windows 12 is gonna be a bit on the bloated side, Huh?
- root_axis 9mo ago
  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.
  - sarchertech 9mo ago
    That’s definitely true. But I don’t think you need 100k engineers for literally anything.

FergusArgyll 9mo ago

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

torginus 9mo ago

So the recent surge in demand for storage is to because we have to store that code somewhere?

falloutx 9mo ago

Surely 1 line of code = $1, so Microsoft can get $100b revenue per month. Genius plan.

petcat 9mo ago

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.