Microsoft Killing Tech Debt with Agents
“AI removes the friction from the intent to the implementation,” says Amanda Silver, corporate vice president and head of products, apps and agents at Microsoft. She talks with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how copilots and agents are collapsing the software lifecycle — from natural-language ideas to code, tests and operations — shifting developers to reviewing and governance from typing, and making “evals” the new testing standard. She cites big-tech technical-debt wins, such as .NET and Java upgrades requiring 70–80% less manual effort, and SRE agents…
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