Asana saves millions using Codex Agents to remove legacy code
heypearlai · x · 2026-08-20
Asana used Codex Agents to complete a project in a week and a half that was estimated to take five years and cost $6 million: removing the legacy testing framework Enzyme, which engineers had avoided for years. The actual cost via AI agents was only about $12,000, demonstrating the massive efficiency gains of AI coding tools in handling legacy code and maintenance tasks.
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