Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
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Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#2When "5 years of work" take two weeks, you know two things. The estimates were wrong, and nobody will need a project management tool soon.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#3When everything is “estimates”, anything sounds amazing.
The impressive thing here is that Asana has such a poorly run engineering org that replacing their testing framework was estimated to take 5 years and $6 million.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
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Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#5When everything is “estimates”, anything sounds amazing. The impressive thing here is that Asana has such a poorly run engineering org that replacing their testing framework was estimated to take 5 years and $6 million.
Also I think the marketing post compares removing a test framework (how is that not trivial?) with replacing it with another.
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#7I would love to know the responsible people at Asana who approved this joint PR. Like, do you not get the blatant second degree negative implications of what’s stated here, albeit manipulated and hyperbolic, for a project management software?
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#8The more tangible example for me around LLM enabling what's previously long if not impossible tasks: pgrust.
https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#9People may think it’s an overstatement. But I think it’s not.
This kind of projects are where AI is most helpful. Long tedious and highly testable projects like ports or legacy system replacements where humans have to grind through millions of lines of code without really thinking are the perfect target for AI.
I once did a C to C# port of several math libraries, and while I was able to automate most of it, it still required a ton of manual work. I bet if I had Claude, I could do what I did in 3 months in a day or two.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#10Comparisons such as 5 years and $6M are meaningless. Instead, they should compare with other AI, such as how much it would have cost using self-hosted open-weight models, or using a API that offers open-weight models etc.