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Engineering the Frontier Firm: Sharing our AI-native approach to software development

About a year ago, our teams in Microsoft Digital—the company's IT organization—began an AI transformation the same way most organizations did: ad-hoc. Our engineers taught themselves new tools while those tools were still evolving.

Engineering the Frontier Firm: Sharing our AI-native approach to software development

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About a year ago, our teams in Microsoft Digital—the company's IT organization—began an AI transformation the same way most organizations did: ad-hoc.

Our engineers taught themselves new tools while those tools were still evolving.

"We quickly identified that improving the […] The post Engineering the Frontier Firm:

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About a year ago, our teams in Microsoft Digital—the company's IT organization—began an AI transformation the same way most organizations did: ad-hoc. Our engineers taught themselves new tools while those tools were still evolving. "We quickly identified that improving the […] The post Engineering the Frontier Firm:

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