Microsoft is looking for a developer to write 1 million lines of code per month, and AWS CEO says Juniors will not disappear.

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Microsoft posted a job seeking an engineer to output 1 million lines of code monthly using AI to replace C/C++ with Rust by 2030. This represents a problematic industry trend of measuring software quality by lines of code rather than actual value. The expectation that one person could meaningfully review 65 lines per minute is unrealistic. Industry leaders are promoting AI-assisted junior developers over experienced seniors for cost savings, despite evidence that many companies laying off workers end up increasing expenses and rehiring later. The push treats software development as industrialized manufacturing rather than skilled problem-solving work.

One MILLION lines of code every month

WTF - One day AI assisted is the goat. The next post someone says it is the worst decreasing productivity 50%. Cannot wait for 2026. I am not searching the position. ;) But I like AI. Some saying it will replace us all and some saying it will make us more work. Glad I am going my own way!

No, that is not what happened. Someone working at Microsoft posted a blog entry on how they would like to port Microsoft’s C++ code to Rust as a research project, and imagined that, using vibe coding, an engineer and an LLM could probably translate 1 million lines of code a month.
<a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-not-rewriting-windows-in-rust-ebkfz2ojq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://app.daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-not-rewriting-windows-in-rust-ebkfz2ojq</a>
There is no news here. Just a rando blogging in their spare time about a spare time project they hadn’t even started yet.