Full title: Microsoft’s distinguished engineer says “typing code is absolutely over,” and Windows 11 is already being built that way. Nadella previously said 20-30% code at MSFT is AI-coded, and Windows security updates now include AI-assisted fixes to fight AI-enabled threats.
My work is going this way too. If you try to think for yourself, all the reviewers Claude agents make the same comments and suggest the same dumb defensive code with a paragraph of comments above it. The only way to avoid it is just to create the code with your own Claude agent and let it fix whatever nonsense your own agent-reviewer comes up with.
To refute some idiot thing the agents all came up with in a review requires me to dig through dependency source code for an hour to see that its just a hallucination, but then at the end of the week my PR numbers are down because I went on a half dozen wild goose chases at the direction of someone’s Claude agent. Maybe 1/5 are real. I’m at the point where IDGAF and I just cargo cult the change and I’m already figuring out what my next career is and building a place in the Philippines where I can live for a few years on minimal income. This shit is seriously broken.