Comment by minraws

16 hours ago

Microsoft bet everything on possible AGI, no one thought the result would be a bonafide commit printing machine.

That's not what Nadella said 1-2 years ago. Everyone seemed pretty aware of LLMs soon being able to handle a lot of steps of software development.

I bet it's mostly due to Azure being brittle and the AI boom is just a nice cover story (not saying it's not challenging to handle all that new load) to save face and sell more Azure services.