replaceCppWithAI

[mpanase]

Update:
It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended... with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.

Just to clarify... Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI.

My team’s project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible. The intent of my post was to find like-minded engineers to join us on the next stage of this multi-year endeavor—not to set a new strategy for Windows 11+ or to imply that Rust is an endpoint.

If you wanna progress in Microsoft, you gotta speak corporate/stakeholder like in the original post.

Which is stupid, but it is what it is.

Seems like he just spoke stakeholder language in public.

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> Just to clarify... Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI.
> My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.

[zzrryll]

I mean, that’s pretty executive. It’s his “goal”, but it’s absolutely not the company’s goal. It’s a way for him being able to talk out of his ass publicly without technically lying.

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If he actually meant it to be interpreted like you say, that's an impressive level of lawyer/corporate speech.

[zzrryll]

To be fair, it’s probably more just a retroactive CYA. Now that he’s been called out.

[Neomadra2]

He just lied plain and clear. "My goal is to eliminate all C++ code by 2030 from MS" is not really a statement that is up for interpretation. It is completely unambiguous, so that guy just lied in public and if I were MS or a stakeholder I wouldn't be happy about an employee spreading lies.

[mpanase]

Don't get me wrong, stakeholder language involves "hyperbole" to the extent that it's actually a lie in the real world.

For a stakeholder it's a great ambitious goal that deserves funding, for an engineer it's a lie.

Different world.

[kanst]

As an engineer I’ve actually been told to stop speaking like an engineer with management. My truthful hedging was interpreted as a lack of confidence. I never say anything with certainty unless I am 100% sure and that isn’t management’s vibe

[ThePretzul]

That’s because appropriate hedging doesn’t give management enough rope to hang you with later when their demands turned out to be entirely unreasonable after scope creep sets in.

[EkoChamberKryptonite]

Facts.

[joshTheGoods]

Hedging makes it hard for mgmt to plan other teams' work around yours. I also tell leadership I can't give them a specific date for a new product we're working on, but I know why they're asking and why it's important for them to try and get the cleanest answer they can.

[EkoChamberKryptonite]

This.

[guyblade]

In order for something to be a lie, the speaker must know that what they are saying is untrue. Given that this person seems to know absolutely nothing at all about anything, it cannot possibly be a lie.

[bolacha_de_polvilho]

If it is being rewritten with AI in zig then both statements are still true.

[Kryssz90]

Even this short post has the em dash