Two of Microsoft’s most prominent developers have some words for organizations overly celebrating agentic AI’s productivity gains: You are hollowing out your own talent pipeline.
In an opinion piece published in the April 2026 issue of the journal Communications of the ACM, Mark Russinovich, Microsoft’s CTO of Azure, and Scott Hanselman, VP and Member of Technical Staff for Microsoft CoreAI/GitHub/Windows, argue that generative AI has fractured the economics of software development in ways the industry has not yet fully reckoned…

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