Phrased this way, my aspiring product leader hat activates: that 5 years of work cannot be of much value to a company worth billions because a 5 year estimate is the lowest possible qualification you can make. Its a “will never happen” shelving.

all work is stack ranked against other opportunities. no matter how many teams help to parallelize, leadership basically comes down to ranking the stack correctly. Valuable work will be at the top by any means necessary. “mvp”, probes, task forces, code yellows, and so on.

edit: it’s even a backhanded compliment to agentic coding. Asana a public company considers a $12k outlay for something they’d never spend real resources on worth a case study =|

Apparently the task was to remove dead weight. Haven't read what they replaced "Enzyme" with.

I did subagent based removal tasks a few times. These were the ones that required the least amount of input or thinking from me, because the requirements are abundantly clear. "Remove this part of the code without breaking any other part or by porting the tests done with it onto another system."

In these situations the code acts as the bookkeeping ledger itself, and coordination complexity is almost a no-brainer.

yeah this was my read.

either it was a hail mary 5 year change-the-market offering, or it was something that staff can "get around to" whenever they have the cycles, and would, at current rates, take like 3-5 years to do.

was the tool worth 12k? if it's not a line in capex or opex budgets it's value is $0