Axel's engagement with the issue and refusal to give up is admirable. It also demonstrates that code and architecture remain important even in an era when managers believe these subjects can now be handled by LLMs. Imagine if LLMs were mandated for use in such an environment, further distancing SWEs from the code and overarching architectural choices. I am not saying that it can't work. But friction and maturity through experience really matters.

Also explains perfectly why I never met an engineer who was eager to run workloads on Azure. In orgs I worked, either the use of Azure was mandated by management (probably good $$ incentives) or through Microsoft leaning into the "Multi-Cloud for resilience" selling point, to get Orgs shift workloads from competitors.

Its also huge case for open (cloud) stack(s).