Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code

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Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code

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Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington, Bloomberg reports.
Over 40% of the people laid off were in software engineering, making it by far the largest category, Bloomberg found based on state filings. Relatively few sales or marketing…

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