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Microsoft

The company and its bets: Copilot, the office tools business, and what agents do to both.

What people on korrents have said about Microsoft, newest first — 13 positions from 9 people.

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Who Everyone DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson 2 GHGeorge Hotz 2 SNSatya Nadella 2 THThePrimeagen 2 AHAnders Hejlsberg 1 AKAndrej Karpathy 1 EMEthan Mollick 1 SYSteve Yegge 1 TLTobias Lütke 1
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  1. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingSoftware lock-in is breaking, because rewriting just the 5% of an application you personally use is now within one person's reach.

    Their wordsAnd maybe you won't get to 100% coverage, but this is the old joke about Microsoft Office. "I only use 5%." Yeah, well, we all use a different 5%. Well, what if we all just build our own 5%? What if I just took the functionality that I need and just did that? That is a completely different challenge and one agents are incredibly capable of doing right now, today, and I've done it a lot of times over.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 7th of 41 in this recording

    Interesting
  2. 5 weeks earlier
  3. EM

    Ethan Mollick quoted

    Our readingMicrosoft Copilot is adequate for office document work but significantly behind in agentic capability

    Their wordsCopilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.

    ↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org

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  4. 2 months earlier
  5. AH

    Anders Hejlsberg quoted

    Our readingA proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come.

    Their wordsAnd we we full well knew that there was absolutely zero chance that we would appeal to the JavaScript ecosystem with a proprietary programming language licensed from Microsoft. No. No one was going to come. It had to be open source. There was just no two ways about it, right?

    ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording

    TypeScriptopen sourceJavaScript

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  6. 2 months earlier
  7. SY

    Steve Yegge quoted

    Our readingA company that handed its engineers Copilot and thinks it is now moving faster will be destroyed by the people using frontier models.

    Their wordsBut I'm serious, if you're working at a company that uses that gave you Copilot, they think that they're starting to move faster and there's a barbarian horde of people using Opus 4.5 that are going to destroy your company sooner or later.

    ↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 23rd of 25 in this recording

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  9. AK

    Andrej Karpathy quoted

    Our readingAgentic organisations will be forkable in a way that classical companies never were.

    Their wordsYou can’t fork classical orgs (eg Microsoft) but you’ll be able to fork agentic orgs.

    ↗@karpathy on Xx.com

    AI agents

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  10. 4 months earlier
  11. SN

    Satya Nadella quoted

    Our readingMicrosoft has no birthright in AI; its luck is only that the new category is far bigger than the ones it used to dominate.

    Their wordsthere's no birthright here that we should have any confidence other than to say hey we should go innovate and knowing the the lucky break we have in some sense is that uh this category is going to be a lot bigger than anything we had high share in

    ↗Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.com 6th of 22 in this recording

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  13. SN

    Satya Nadella quoted

    Our readingMicrosoft's end-user tools business will become an infrastructure business in support of agents doing the work.

    Their wordsIn fact, I kind of look at it and say our business which today is an enduser tools business will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work.

    ↗Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

    infrastructure

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  14. 8 weeks earlier
  15. TL

    Tobias Lütke quoted

    Our readingA hired chief executive can become the author of a company's culture by giving it a re-founding event, as Satya Nadella and Jamie Dimon did.

    Their wordsI think both of them have given re-founding events to their companies. I think they are actually um uh they have made such large changes with such clear breaks from the past that they are actually are the authors of their companies' cultures now.

    ↗ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)youtube.com 16th of 21 in this recording

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  16. 3 months earlier
  17. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingA big switch to desktop Linux is coming, at least among developers, because there is enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.

    Their wordsI don't know when we'll literally get "The Year of Linux on the Desktop", but I've never been as convinced that its coming as I am now. There's enough dissent in the water. Enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.

    ↗Omarchy is outworld.hey.com

    LinuxApple

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  18. 3 months earlier
  19. TH

    ThePrimeagen quoted

    Our readingCoding with an AI assistant slides from copiloting into autopiloting, and the bugs that follow are hard to trace.

    Their wordsFor me personally, I kept introducing bugs, and I couldn't figure out why. And what I realized is that I developed... I wasn't copiloting well, I was autopiloting much better.

    ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 23rd of 31 in this recording

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  21. TH

    ThePrimeagen quoted

    Our readingVS Code and Copilot are loss leaders in an embrace-extend-extinguish play, raising the switching cost until nobody can leave.

    Their wordsWhereas something like Microsoft, they made VS Code as a loss leader. Copilot's probably operating on a loss leader. These things are all getting you so tied into, GitHub, remote workspaces, CI, Copilot, you become this trapped in permanent person and if that price rises, the switching cost is so great at some point that you'll never be able to switch.

    ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 30th of 31 in this recording

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  22. 21 months earlier
  23. GH

    George Hotz quoted

    Our readingIf Copilot is meaningfully helping you write code, that is evidence your framework or library is bad and full of boilerplate.

    Their wordsSo almost if Codex or copilot are helping you, that actually probably means that your framework or library is bad and there’s too much boilerplate in it.

    ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 14th of 30 in this recording

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  25. GH

    George Hotz quoted

    Our readingSocial and advertising businesses come and go; a technology company that wants to endure has to build hardware.

    Their wordsThe two companies that have endured through technology are Apple and Microsoft. And what do they make? Computers and business services, right. All the meme, social ads, they all come and go. But you want to endure, build hardware.

    ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 28th of 30 in this recording

    Apple

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