How AirAsia CTO's is using AI to rewrite software - while winning over employees
- ID
- 40077
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 27 Oct 2026, 2:57 PM
- Fetched
- 28 Oct 2026, 1:56 AM
- Provider
- Digital News Asia
- Category
- malaysia-tech
- Original URL
- https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/how-airasia-ctos-using-ai-rewrite-software-while-winning-over-employees
- Source URL
- https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/rss.xml
Summary
- Score
- 7.2
- Created
- 28 Oct 2026, 1:56 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coderssaas_startup_founders
What happened
AirAsia CTO Wan Yussman Wan Yusof says AI-assisted development compressed selected software timelines by 10 to 47 times, including a working demo of about 350 screens for an airline operations system built in three weeks versus an estimated two years. The demo covered flight management, crew management, crew pairing optimisation, aircraft assignment and aircraft recovery, but was not production-ready. He frames 2026 as 'speed over perfection' while insisting engineering standards remain because 'lives are at stake', and says winning employee trust and skills is the harder challenge.
Why it matters
Use the 10–47x and 350-screen result as a rapid-prototyping benchmark, not a production estimate: the system was a demo and the CTO explicitly says lives are at stake. If you are pitching AI-built internal systems to sceptical operations teams in Malaysia or SEA, show a working slice early and define the production safety, accountability and adoption gate; the article gives no tooling, cost, error-rate or security details, so do not budget from the multiplier.
Discussion angle
What would you need to see before treating a three-week, 350-screen demo as evidence for replacing a two-year enterprise build: tooling details, error rates, security review, or operations sign-off?