Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
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Using OpenAI Codex, Asana replaced an outdated testing system in two weeks for about $12K.
Key facts
- Using OpenAI Codex, Asana replaced an outdated testing system in two weeks for about $12K
- For comparison: the previous plan was expected to take at least five years and estimated to cost roughly $6M
- Model and infrastructure cost versus Asana’s ~$6M staffing estimate
- Calendar weeks to finish work expected to take 5 years
Summary
In about two weeks, Asana completed work it expected to take five years. Asana helps teams coordinate work. For this project, Codex helped Asana’s engineers remove Enzyme, an outdated testing system that had made the company’s code harder to upgrade. Their old testing tool, Enzyme, had fallen out of active maintenance and was becoming a blocker to modernizing Asana’s frontend stack. From a five-sentence prompt, up to four coding agents worked in parallel, each in a separate copy of the codebase.