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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
#22Unfortunately, this is the type of statements we can't verify. I'm not sure why these types of news are still coming out when we all have AI at work. Whenever someone does such a huge drastic change like this, it's by ignoring a large chunk of code that most people were afraid to touch for good reasons. Now, that code is gone, AI is celebrated, things will break, people will work very hard in the background to fix it…
> where afraid to touch for good reasons
This appears entirely unreasonable.
Normally the reason is not good. The reason is that unit testing is missing or that downstream effects are not entirely mapped out.
Exactly activities that traditional software developers are loathing because they are boring and mentally straining.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#23It is a good PR for Asana. I checked this with Gemini & here is what Gemini said - https://share.gemini.google/B8nocObwgiih Summary: The Takeaway Did an AI generate 5 years' worth of highly creative, novel software features from scratch in two weeks? No. Did an AI complete 5 years' worth of tedious, widespread code-migration technical debt in two weeks? Yes.
The latter sounds about as attractive to me as the former, actually more because my customers are mostly hoping for their bugs to be fixed , not for the latest novel feature.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#24Unfortunately, this is the type of statements we can't verify. I'm not sure why these types of news are still coming out when we all have AI at work. Whenever someone does such a huge drastic change like this, it's by ignoring a large chunk of code that most people were afraid to touch for good reasons. Now, that code is gone, AI is celebrated, things will break, people will work very hard in the background to fix it…
> I'm not sure why these types of news are still coming out when we all have AI at work.
Because OpenAI is burning $15 billion/year, and outrageous stories like those get parroted in the media. It's free marketing for a company desperate to get middle management to believe that a $500/mo subscription is absolutely crucial for every single employee.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#25Unfortunately, this is the type of statements we can't verify. I'm not sure why these types of news are still coming out when we all have AI at work. Whenever someone does such a huge drastic change like this, it's by ignoring a large chunk of code that most people were afraid to touch for good reasons. Now, that code is gone, AI is celebrated, things will break, people will work very hard in the background to fix it…
It’s just sales claims.
Do you see that “contact sales” button?
You’re not the target of that.
Deranged AI-psychotic C-suites with a two-digit IQ and too much confidence are the target.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#26Unfortunately, this is the type of statements we can't verify. I'm not sure why these types of news are still coming out when we all have AI at work. Whenever someone does such a huge drastic change like this, it's by ignoring a large chunk of code that most people were afraid to touch for good reasons. Now, that code is gone, AI is celebrated, things will break, people will work very hard in the background to fix it…
Exactly. You can simply close all open tickets with and claim that you've cleared 5 years of engineering work in 5 minutes. It doesn't mean anything.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#27So clearly it doesn't need the workforce required to delivery 5 years man work, as per project estimations, thus brace for impact.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
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I think there might be a mixup here.
You see: normally one reads for recreation or enlightenment.
If that same one would approach their job as a recreational activity, or solely for enlightenment, you might not have that job for very long.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#29From the article:
> For comparison: the previous plan was expected to take at least five years and estimated to cost roughly $6M.
If that's an estimate from an LLM, those have always been way off for me. I'm constantly amazed whenever something that an agent estimates would take weeks ends up being completed in an hour.
Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
#30I believe this about as much as the claim that the Bun rewrite cost $165k