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Asana: Codex cleared 5 years in 2 weeks

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OpenAI's case study says Asana used Codex to clear an estimated five years of backlogged engineering work in two weeks, though the estimate is Asana's own.

OpenAI published a case study crediting Asana’s engineering team with clearing an estimated five years of backlogged technical debt and small feature work in two weeks using Codex, framed as evidence for what a coding agent can absorb when pointed at a large, well-defined backlog rather than open-ended new development.

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  1. 01Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codexopenai.com · primary
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