One would think he'd be up for a promotion?

Coz they certainly feel oh the high side for SSDs. 5 tons of carbon per SSD. Really?

The only reason why extremely large and complex monolithic projects still exist is because it has been prohibitively expensive to rewrite them. AI might just about make this a lot cheaper and quicker to do. Even a year ago I was of an opinion that AI will never fully replace software developers - I don't think that anymore. On a positive note - I have a lot of ideas which would now be possible to implement by myself.

The progress that AI has made over the previous year is astounding. A year ago Github copilot was a bit of a gimmic. It got things wrong more often than it got thigns right. I have just spent the weekend playing with the preview of Github Copilot agent mode - and completed the amount of work it would have taken me a whole working week a year ago in just a few hours, with only minor edits to generated code. And even these could have probably been avoided if I worded my tasks better. The primary programming language that I have used is english. With this - we can probably let go 80% of our junior and mid level developers and still be more productive than a year ago.

Microsoft is actively migrating majority of it's revenue to subscription based cloud solutions - O365, D365, Azure etc. For the bigger part - I'd imagine revenue that they receive from windows licenses is shrinking to the point where it might actually become a cost sink, and the Windows app store as a way to sell apps and charge commission just never took off - since this is how google and apple make most of their money of their mobile platforms. And if someone is accessing your cloud solution with a browser - you really don't care what underlying OS they are running. Outsourcing the OS dev and maintenance bits to someone else for free - sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Sometimes the simple solution is the most optimal one. If Titan sub was built out of a iron which performance is much better understood than that carbon fiber - we wouldn't have had an imploding submersibles

So, java is finally catching up to .net

What i don't understand is that the vast majority of scientific community agree that we're probably not alone in the universe and were actively searching for evidence through SETI and the like, yet as soon as someone mentiones that there is a phenomenon that we do not understand and let's consider aliens as a hypothesis - everyone ridicules them. Lets look at the data, and disprove or provide an alternative viable explanation for it. For a lot of the evidence theres more than just grainy images - theres visual contact, optical/infrared, radar data (a lot of which is classified due to the nature of sensors / technology involved).