feels like microsoft keeps optimizing for ecosystem lock-in while users just want less friction

requiring an account for basic stuff might make sense internally but from user side it just adds unnecessary steps

curious how much of the appeal is still there vs a few years ago feels like a lot of these “global founder” setups sound great in theory but get messy in practice

My guess is the biggest change isn't that AI replaces engineers, it's that it changes where the effort goes.

Writing code gets cheaper, but review, debugging, constraints, and deciding what not to build become more important. The teams that get the most out of these tools will probably be the ones with good feedback loops, not just access to better models