Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

Microsoft used AI agents to port its Copilot runtime from TypeScript to Rust, costing about $120K in tokens and three weeks of developer time, converting 430K lines across 135 releases into 800K lines of Rust with a 15.9x speedup on one benchmark.

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