throwawayms4

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   by throwawayms4 9mo ago

   I suspect there's some truth in that, but I suspect it's very banal. Current leadership does not have the "political leeway" nor technical conviction or strategic insight to buck trends on instinct as past leadership di
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   by throwawayms4 9mo ago

   This is a hard question since there are a few patterns I've seen. Often they're long-term microsoft, more often PM than engineering, sometimes external. But I suspect that's not the dominating consistency, with a similar st
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   by throwawayms4 9mo ago

   My reason for saying that was not to say the employees are not well-paid in an absolute sense. It's that the reality is that caliber of employee has options, and Microsoft does not work to retain them, which results in undesirable (fr
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   by throwawayms4 9mo ago

   Broken incentives, clueless trend-following leaders. For the last year or so all orders from leadership have been "build more AI, show AI usage" even above things like stability and reliability. There was no recognition from leade