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  "title": "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex",
  "why_included": "Asana says Codex replaced an outdated test system in two weeks for about $12K, compressing an estimated five-year migration into a focused agent-assisted project.",
  "summary": "Asana used Codex to replace an outdated testing system in **two weeks**. The company says the migration had been estimated at **five years** of engineering work and cost about **$12K**.",
  "practical_implication": "Builders should look for bounded, testable maintenance projects that agents can execute repeatedly, especially migrations whose manual workload has kept them indefinitely deferred.",
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    "published_at": "2026-08-18T07:00:00.000Z"
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  "uncertainty": [
    "The material provides no implementation details, quality measures, staffing baseline, or calculation behind the five-year estimate, so it does not establish that similar compression transfers to other codebases."
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    "meaning": "This is the strongest supplied schedule-and-cost claim for agents tackling deferred maintenance, sharpening the case for bounded, repetitive, testable migrations. It does not establish a reusable productivity multiplier: the five-year estimate, staffing, implementation, review, and quality evidence are absent, so the result remains a company case rather than a benchmark for other codebases.",
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    "generated_at": "2026-08-23T18:03:25.005Z",
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      {
        "title": "Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work",
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        "title": "Agentic SDLC at Uber — Uday Kiran Medisetty & Adam Huda, Uber",
        "source_name": "AI Engineer",
        "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-YSUHo6Lk",
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        "reason": "Uber identifies environments, context, reusable skills, and validation capacity as prerequisites for scaling migrations, operational details absent from the Asana account."
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        "title": "Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI",
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        "source_url": "https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai",
        "feed7_url": "https://feed7.dev/p/scientific-computing-agentic-ai-0bij8w4",
        "reason": "The scientific-computing case points to another legacy-software modernization use case, but lacks the concrete schedule and cost claim supplied by Asana."
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