<![CDATA[An ex-Azure engineer published six essays arguing Microsoft's cloud has been on life support since 2008, and the cause isn't bad code.]]>An ex-Azure engineer published six essays arguing Microsoft's cloud has been on life support since 2008, and the cause isn't bad code. It's bad people decisions. Rushed launch, post-launch talent exodus, no testing discipline, no architectural vision. Sound familiar to anyone who's worked in a place that ships first and staffs later?

Now layer 2026 on top. Microsoft cut roughly 15,000 jobs in mid-2025. Coding agents are pumping out 4x more commits in 90 days. GitHub's unofficial uptime has slipped under 90% and the proposed fix is, wait for it, moving more of GitHub onto Azure. The same Azure the engineer says is held together with rushed decisions and wishful thinking.

🧠 The phrase that stuck with me is "knowledge dilution from high attrition." When the senior people who knew why a system was built that way leave, no LLM in the world can recover that context
🤖 More AI-written code does not mean less work. It means more code to review, test, deploy, and run, which means more compute and more humans needed downstream
📉 OpenAI signing an $11.9B compute deal with CoreWeave in March 2025 was the loudest "we don't trust your capacity" signal Microsoft has ever received from its closest partner
🪑 The bet that AI lets you cut headcount keeps colliding with the reality that AI generates work for humans faster than it removes it

Every CIO I talk to is being pitched the same dream: fewer engineers, more agents, lower run rate. The Azure story is what happens when that math doesn't pencil out and the bill comes due in incidents instead of dollars.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/04/azure_talent_exodus/

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mkb/statuses/116449598754597679https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mkb/statuses/116449598754597679Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:44:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to An ex-Azure engineer published six essays arguing Microsoft's cloud has been on life support since 2008, and the cause isn't bad code. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:12:16 GMT]]>@brian_greenberg Azure sucks decayed donkey gonads in hell. Microsoft have never had any skills in designing at scale, ever. Their acidic juices are corroding github as we speak.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/megatronicthronbanks/statuses/116448056860547688https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/megatronicthronbanks/statuses/116448056860547688Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:12:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to An ex-Azure engineer published six essays arguing Microsoft's cloud has been on life support since 2008, and the cause isn't bad code. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:07:58 GMT]]>@brian_greenberg
The great A.I. crash is going to take years to recover from. CEOs are going to have fun trying to spin the reasons they have to rehire.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BoloMKXXVIII/statuses/116447804045839634https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BoloMKXXVIII/statuses/116447804045839634Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:07:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to An ex-Azure engineer published six essays arguing Microsoft's cloud has been on life support since 2008, and the cause isn't bad code. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:31:59 GMT]]>@brian_greenberg

"The bet that AI lets you cut headcount keeps colliding with the reality that AI generates work for humans faster than it removes it"

While true, many (if not most) CEOs don't seem give a flying feck about correct and accurate output unless it's a susbstantial legal liability.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/proscience/statuses/116447426579685107https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/proscience/statuses/116447426579685107Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:31:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to An ex-Azure engineer published six essays arguing Microsoft's cloud has been on life support since 2008, and the cause isn't bad code. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:49:54 GMT]]>@brian_greenberg I agree and almost boosted this post.

The only concerning thing for me is that paragraph where each line starts with an emoji. Which is a sign that this post itself had some generative AI in its creation?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/freshstart/statuses/116447261157396199https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/freshstart/statuses/116447261157396199Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:49:54 GMT