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

OpenAI LLM Agents 2026-08-18

TL;DR - Asana reports using OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks for roughly $12,000, compressing an estimated five years of engineering work. The case highlights the potential of coding agents to accelerate large-scale software modernization.

  • Codex was applied to replacing legacy testing infrastructure.
  • Asana estimates the project would otherwise have required five years of engineering effort.
  • The reported migration took two weeks and cost about $12,000.
  • The provided content does not specify the system architecture, migration process, or validation results.

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