In the sprawling campus of Redmond, a quiet but radical transformation is underway that goes far beyond the public-facing keynote speeches of Satya Nadella. While the world watches Microsoft battle Google and OpenAI for dominance in the consumer and enterprise artificial intelligence markets, a more immediate and arguably more consequential experiment is happening behind the company’s own firewalls. Microsoft is rigorously enforcing a culture of “dogfooding”—the tech industry parlance for using one’s own products—on a scale never before attempted. The objective is not merely to test software but to fundamentally alter the economics of software engineering by transitioning its massive internal developer corps from manual coders to architects of AI agents.
