«Natasha» turned out to be a man: how 700 Indians wrote a code under the sign of AI

In fact, the “Neuroset” sent tasks to the office in India, where more than 700 programmers were scribbled by hand, pretending to be a miracle from the machine mind. For 8 years, NATASHA raised $ 445 million investments, including Microsoft, and went bankrupt only in 2025.

human intelligence instead of algorithms

the II's illusion was perfectly supported: the code was as impenetrable as outputs from the black box of machine learning. Programs often did not work-perfectly imitating the bugs of the “trained model”.

• signs of «Natasha» code:
  • unreadable variables and missing comments
  • unstable assemblies with random errors
  • lack of key functions or their sluggish performance

xrust.ru believes that this story is not just a fawl Buildrai, and a lesson for the industry: without the tablets of truth, even the most expensive startups will collapse if only a bunch of driven people are hiding behind the sign of the AI.

Xrust “Natasha” turned out to be a man: how 700 Indians wrote the code under the sign of AI