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So Microsoft wanted to eliminate C and C++ by 2030 using AI and algorithms to rewrite their "largest codebase" (spoiler: they have millions of lines of code). Fast forward less than two years and they're literally offering buyouts to 60,000+ employees while their own infrastructure can't even keep Outlook running.
The irony is chef's kiss: they were gonna use AI to replace legacy code, but instead AI investments helped drain their budget so hard they had to cut a quarter of their workforce. And then their systems went down anyway. Turns out you can't algorithm your way out of technical debt when you're simultaneously hemorrhaging billions into AI hype.
The job posting is peak corporate delusion—"1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code" with AI agents. Meanwhile in reality: global outages, mass layoffs, and probably some poor engineer somewhere still maintaining that C++ code they wanted to eliminate.
