What Steve Yegge thinks about Microsoft

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Yegge has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 11 Mar 2026

   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