Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
- The software engine underpinning GitHub Copilot and a growing number of Microsoft products is now written entirely in Rust, with AI agents doing most of the porting work.
- The migration cost about $120,000 in AI token usage plus about three weeks of a developer's time.
- However, managers also had to grapple with a few dozen regressions in the resulting code, pointing to AI’s ongoing challenges in understanding Rust.
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- The software engine underpinning GitHub Copilot and a growing number of Microsoft products is now written entirely in Rust, with AI agents doing most of the porting work.
- The migration cost about $120,000 in AI token usage plus about three weeks of a developer's time.
- However, managers also had to grapple with a few dozen regressions in the resulting code, pointing to AI’s ongoing challenges in understanding Rust.
Sources: Theregister