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The update. Let's talk about the update. "It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended." This is how all clarifications begin. I didn't expect you to read what I wrote. And remember it. "With a lot of speculative reading between the lines." Between the lines. The lines that said "eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030." Those lines. What was between them? Eliminate. Every. Line. By. 2030. That's not between the lines. That's the lines. "Just to clarify... Windows is NOT being rewritten in Rust with AI." The asterisks. Emphasis asterisks. Panic asterisks. Please-stop-emailing-my-VP asterisks. "My team's project is a research project." Research project. The original post said "My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030." My goal. Not "my research question." Not "our hypothesis." My goal. Goals are things you intend to achieve. Research is things you're exploring. These are different words. With different meanings. "The intent of my post was to find like-minded engineers." Like-minded. Engineers who read "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code" and didn't ask follow-up questions. Those engineers. "Not to set a new strategy for Windows 11+." The post said "Microsoft's largest codebases." What did you think people would think? "Or to imply that Rust is an endpoint." The post said "translating Microsoft's largest C and C++ systems to Rust." Endpoint implied. Now the North Star saves us. North Star. The escape hatch. North Stars are unreachable by definition. You can't fail to reach something you never meant to reach. That's the trick. The original post also said: "Our team is driven by a growth mindset." Growth mindset. "We take on bold risks." Bold risks. "We work and play well with others." Work and play. Well with others. This is a job listing or a kindergarten report card. I can't tell anymore. "We have learned that our diversity and growth mindset is critical to success in the rapidly changing word of AI-based tools." Word. It says "word." Not "world." Word. Nobody proofread the manifesto. "Eliminate technical debt at scale." Technical debt at scale. By creating clarification debt. At scale. The original post: "Eliminate every line of C and C++ by 2030." The update: "This is a research project and we never said that." You said that. It's still there. In the post. That you wrote. Multi-year endeavor. North Star. Research project. Growth mindset. The clarification is longer than the apology. Because it's not an apology. It's a reframe. Reframe means: I meant what I said until you noticed. Now I meant something else.

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Regarding Clair Obscur - We believe sometimes we have to pick our battles. A few placeholder assets that were immediately patched out does not make an entire game AI slop. Our account is about recognizing, appreciating and highlighting the strengths of human creativity. If a game is 99.99% a human crafted labor of love, we do not believe 0.01% of GenAI (if it even qualifies as that much) is worth slandering the entire game over. Doing that gives permission to AI Boosters to do what they do best - take credit for things they had no hand in. They now take a game that was 99.99% a human crafted labor of love and say "Look at the power of GenAI to make these incredible games possible" when it had no meaningful impact at all. Obviously we would all always prefer it wasn't used, and the internet is not a place that handles nuance well. But please keep this in mind for the future. We do not believe in witch hunts or hate directed at the hard work of artists or developers.🫖