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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

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"Their old testing tool, Enzyme, had fallen out of active maintenance and was becoming a blocker to modernizing Asana’s frontend stack" Non prod code, good use case.

Also a very trivial piece of work for an LLM to do - with a measurable end goal.

Hopefully a human did give a quick look to make sure it didn’t just delete the tests.

Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

#44

It 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.

Who cares what an LLM hallucinates about it?

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.

on the other hand if you all you deliver are half-backed products you're bound to create a lot of grief, and move yourself up the corpo ladder.

Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

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If you ask Sol or Claude how much time it will take to implement a plan they just came up with, they usually advise a timeframe in the weeks or months - assuming, I suppose, that human programmers will be building it. And then you ask the model to just "do it" and it takes an hour or two. I always find this entertaining.

Funny but shows how it doesn't have a useful world model

Re: Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

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If you ask Sol or Claude how much time it will take to implement a plan they just came up with, they usually advise a timeframe in the weeks or months - assuming, I suppose, that human programmers will be building it. And then you ask the model to just "do it" and it takes an hour or two. I always find this entertaining.

I find that the models have increasingly started throwing out made up amounts of time around, as if they wouldn't be aware that the user is already using Claude Code or Codex.

It's like every time they make a plan, there's something about things taking "a week or two", "month of focused work", or whatever.

This is something that would've been RL'd out a long time ago if it wasn't great for business.

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.

ha:) Think you taking this person's statement too literally:)
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