VissApr 23

if you think azure is bad now, or ms products are bad now, imagine what happens when all the elder god types still there, who are barely keeping the ship afloat, all take this deal and bounce

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-plans-first-voluntary-retirement-program-for-us-employees.html

Show threadTaffer 🇨🇦Apr 23
@Viss This is going to make GitHub even faster and more reliable! 🤦
Show threadGraydonApr 23

@Taffer @Viss If Mephistopheles manifested out of hell and offered you a serious bet that at no time in the next three years would GitHub start rewriting your code with "AI" without asking you, would you take it?

It should be the case that the only thing causing a second thought in that scenario is the "fiend of hell" part, and trying to remember if they've all got the gift of prophecy. It should in no way be the case that such a thing feels any amount of plausible, and yet.

Show threadTaffer 🇨🇦
@graydon @Viss I’d bet against, but only because “my” code doesn’t live on GitHub. But these future outages are going to be epic.
Apr 23 at 8:54pmWeb
Show threadGraydonApr 24

@Taffer None of my personal stuff does, either, but my current employer uses the thing and code I'm responsible for is hosted there.

I am not looking forward to those future outages, however much I agree with you about their probable scale.

@Viss