One of my fav hacks is to open a codex session in ~/.codex/sessions/2025/12 and then ask it for which was the session when I was doing xyz, to resume it - I can't track it. When I find some free time: having codex write the session ID & subtree that led to a particular commit!

One thing that agentic coding tools need to figure out is how to keep the user in flow state. It's like getting up to get coffee while you wait for your code to compile, except you are compiling all day.

One thing that's boosted my productivity with codex is to configure sound a bell when it needs my input. I found checking the window distracting in the same way as checking your phone to see if you got a text message. Here's how I did it: github.com/openai/codex/issu…

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election. “That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.” “Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended through bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine, and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.”

GPT-5 seems like a stronger coding model than Opus 4.1 (esp. for iOS dev). But Claude Code’s UX? Way better than codex. I pay Anthropic more, but get more value from OpenAI. My latest hack: spin up CC subagent that calls Codex to review its plan. Others mixing models like this?

I am proud to announce that today Stemma officially steps into the 🤖🧠 AI age! Discover Assistant is now available! In the demo, you'll see: - Table query context made accessible to any users - Summary of transformations in the Lineage Graph Demo: shorturl.at/aqDSV

Super excited about this release, with a deeper dbt cloud integration, auto-describing data based on column level lineage and a really intuitive way to engage with lineage. Thanks to our customers for endless feedback on improving this - we have a lot more to do.

.@_abhisivasailam talking about modern data team starting with recent trends

Heading to NOLA for Coalesce. If you are there, let me know - would love to meet up!

Here is the follow up to a great conversation about properly modeling data in the modern data stack with Chad Sanderson.

If things are not quite clicking between your devs, your data engineers & analysts, Chad Sanderson and I try to dig into that in this post.