Keeper’s stranded. Net’s open. Get that /goooooooal!

2026

Was testing out a new feature that required subagents. Goblins by another name?

More than any skill or review loop, I've gotten better milage than any other with this prompt. > Is this a surgical fix? If there's any scope creep, trim the fat. It deletes useless tests, consolidates duplication, and walks away from 3rd-order edge case boondoggles.

Did you know Codex threads can now manage other Codex threads? You can use this to make a chief of staff merge-bot with a pretty simple prompt. Tired: I use a thread to implement some change, put up the PR, babysit CI for hours, and the agent often fails over to me to route from there. Many threads would die or distract when the actual PR work was already done approved and I just need to go the last mile through CI. Wired: Create a new thread in Codex with a tight loop that tells it to babysit all the other threads. Keeps them moving forward. Only real problems are surfaced to me, but most eventually get merged on their own. Try this prompt, and adjust to your flow: I need help managing a bunch of threads in my Codex app. Any time I have a thread whose name starts with 🚢, I need to get that PR merged. Most of them are approved already and just need to make it through CI. If there's PR feedback, it needs to be addressed. If there's CI failures, it needs to be addressed. If those failures don't relate to the PR, it's often easiest to just rebase and resubmit rather than trying to figure out what the real problem is. Hell, if a PR is older than a day, it's usually good to rebase anyway just to keep it fresh. If there are manual CI steps or anything else that needs human approval, I need to know that so I can address it myself. YOUR job is to manage all the other threads and surface what I need to know back to me here. I want you to set up an automation to run every 10 minutes to check in on all the 🚢 threads and make sure they're still moving forward. If they're not, prompt them to do so or tell me what the issue is.

If anyone is curious what I've been up to, this is it. Over 120 bugs fixed (over just 3 weeks) and counting!

This is what I work on every day. 🤯

I bet the unread badge on the Alerts tab in Slack could survive the heat death of the universe. The presence of that little red (1) is baked into physics.

Using Codex to help me with carpentry this week. It helped me figure out how much board foot to buy, made a cut list, made an overall project outline, and did research on which tools to buy. Pushed it all into a Notion doc for easy consumption/printing.

Now that I've joined the Codex team, it's so freakin' cool being able to fix paper cut bugs that I was running into before the switch. What paper cuts are you running into? I'll see what I can do.

This is huuuuge. I spent so much time and effort working through race conditions only to still have lingering race conditions relating to chat scrolling. In a world with so much AI chat, this couldn’t come sooner.

I keep hearing people blame sloppy AI from Github engineers as the cause of their product sinking. I don't have ANY data to support this opinion, but anecdotally, I see it as exactly the opposite -- everyone I know from MS says they barely have access to good AI tooling.

Whoever on the Codex team added queued message reordering deserves a raise. I didn't know how much I needed that until it showed up.

I basically stopped using the github tools within Codex this week. Instead, I created a skill called $yeet which commits, pushes a PR, babysits the PR through CI, and merges it when finished. I implement features, smoke test them in the in-app browser, and yeet. Massive time save! Codex: "Yeeted and completed."

Sleep: the time when I'm only running one or two agents and my quota can mostly recover.

I didn't have a good headshot to use as my future badge photo. Gave ChatGPT a few old images and told it to put me on a white background. First result was basically perfect. Don't ever pay for a passport photo or corporate headshot again. ChatGPT will one-shot it for you.