Friday Links: Microsoft, AI, and localization
23 May 2025 #mondaylinksHey, there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. Microsoft has made a lot of noise this week. It laid off around ~6K people. And it made the Windows Subsystem for Linux (5min) and the Copilot Chat extension (8min) open source. It seems the layoffs and the release of open source aren’t related. At least, that’s the official version.
#2. Speaking of Microsoft, they enabled Copilot on the Runtime repository. And it seems AI can’t fix simple bugs (4min).
#3. It seems I’m not the only one who doesn’t like it when web apps use my location to decide what language to use. There’s already a better alternative to using IP addresses.
#4. One of the most common mistakes when writing tests is duplicating the logic under test inside assertions. That’s what’s called circular reasoning (7min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about stop optimizing for scale when we don’t need it (2min) and the key to survive a stressful job (2min).
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Cesar
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