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18 Aug 2026, 3:00 PM	OpenAI News	6.5	Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex Asana used OpenAI Codex to remove Enzyme, an unmaintained testing framework blocking frontend modernization, in 1.5 weeks of engineering effort across 2 calendar weeks for ~$12K in model/infra costs—versus a prior estimate of 5 years and ~$6M in staffing. Up to 4 coding agents ran in parallel on separate codebase copies, launched from a five-sentence prompt, with an engineer reviewing progress twice daily. Asana's CTO Amritansh Raghav cautioned that not every long project will compress this dramatically. Why: The concrete workflow details—simple five-sentence prompts outperforming elaborate setups, parallel agents on separate codebase copies, human review twice a day—are a usable blueprint for tackling large legacy migrations with AI agents. The $12K vs $6M cost gap is vendor marketing, but the pattern of decomposing a years-long refactor into agent-parallelizable chunks is worth testing on your own technical-debt backlog. ai-agents developer-tools code-migration case-study

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18 Aug 2026, 3:00 PM

OpenAI News

6.5

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

Asana used OpenAI Codex to remove Enzyme, an unmaintained testing framework blocking frontend modernization, in 1.5 weeks of engineering effort across 2 calendar weeks for ~$12K in model/infra costs—versus a prior estimate of 5 years and ~$6M in staffing. Up to 4 coding agents ran in parallel on separate codebase copies, launched from a five-sentence prompt, with an engineer reviewing progress twice daily. Asana's CTO Amritansh Raghav cautioned that not every long project will compress this dramatically.

Why: The concrete workflow details—simple five-sentence prompts outperforming elaborate setups, parallel agents on separate codebase copies, human review twice a day—are a usable blueprint for tackling large legacy migrations with AI agents. The $12K vs $6M cost gap is vendor marketing, but the pattern of decomposing a years-long refactor into agent-parallelizable chunks is worth testing on your own technical-debt backlog.