OpenAI Codex for Non-Developers: 10 Tips to Get Started Fast

0:00 Over the past month I've been testing Codex as a non developer and I found a workflow that is incredibly practical and helps me 10x my output as a generalist, a builder and marketer, DTM, anything, whatever you're doing, this helps you. I also run the number one community for builders and I use these workflows across everything. Content, GTM, video production, customer support, etc. Most Kodak videos are either too advanced or too coding heavy for beginners, so this video is just different.

0:27 This is a simple step by step beginner playbook showing you how to actually do stuff with AI. And for those just learning about Codex, here's a quick version. I pay 20amonth as part of my ChatGPT subscription. It's kind of crazy and for me it's insanely worth it. Codex helps you orchestrate agents across your work so you can assign tasks, review outputs and move fast. And this is not just for developers. You can use Codex for everything you're doing on a computer.

0:52 You can also run multiple agents at the same time, which means less waiting and more momentum. In these 10 tips, I'll show you everything you need to install Codex. Start building agents across all of your work so you can do more with AI. So let's lock in and start with tip number one. We're starting with getting set up with Codex. Now you can use Codex in a variety of way. You can use it on the web, you can use it in terminal, which is what we call the cli.

1:19 And then you can download the desktop app and the mobile app. That's what I recommend you doing right now, downloading the desktop app and the mobile app. You could do it over@chatgpt.com Codex find the app, download it there. Once you have that installed, we'll now have the desktop app open on the left side. Here we have the ability to create a new thread which is also what we see here. Within that new thread we could see that we could choose which project folder we want to work out.

1:44 Now in the next tip I'm going to show you how to get your project folder set up. So I'm going to come back to this. Also we're going to talk about automations and skills in the future tips, so stay tuned for that. But first I want you to go to settings and I want you to go into personalization right here. This is very important. You need to make sure that you are setting up the personalization that you want Codex to use.

2:06 This will always be read in every prompt that you send to Codex. So I'm going to include some copy and paste prompts that you can use in the guide below for you to make this really easy. But generally it's something along the lines of who you are, the best way that you like to work, helpful tips that it can use to respond with and things that it should avoid. For things that it should avoid, it should be like, don't delete anything without my permission.

2:30 Don't work in a different directory without my permission, things like that. Right? So definitely take a time and fill out your custom instructions. Also, I want to call attention to FCP service. So right now, this desktop app, it's on your computer and it can actually access things on your computer. However, we can bring in more data sources to Codex to be able to make it even more useful. Some of those data sources are supported with MCP service.

2:55 That's essentially a simple way to say that I'm going to connect Codex with Linear or Notion or figma. By connecting Codex to that account, you'll be able to bring in your linear data and and then Codex will be able to not only read it, but to do things with it. MCP servers have started to be very popular and it's a really easy way to make Codex so much more powerful for you and your tool set. So make sure you set up your toolset that works with your team.

3:21 Now for tip number two, we're setting up our project folders and I'm not sure if you saw my viral guide. I recently showed a guide for setting up our project files in cloud code. It's very similar to setting up project files in Codex. Honestly, the two are interchangeable and that's what I love right now. And the reason why I'm teaching cloud code and codecs, because they're both incredible tools. My goal is not to teach the tool, it's to teach the process that you can use with either tool.

3:47 Whatever is best for you to find more success with AI. All right, now this starts with setting up your workspace and we set up our workspace locally on our own computer here. And the way that we do it is I'm going to go into my finder window here and I'm going to pull from my locations. And over here I just have folder with all my documents. Right now. This is specific to me, but you could set it up on your computer however you want.

4:10 Within that I have a folder called Projects. And this lists all the projects that I have for this computer and that I'm working with. Now specifically, I'm Going to show you my cowork workspace, which goes into a lot of the folder structure that I want to highlight to you in this video. First, I have my brain. My brain includes about me, my brand voice, my content strategy, my email style guide, the team members that I work with, my preferences, and any of the external memory information that I need saved here.

4:41 All right? And then I also have this workspace map md. What this is doing at a top level is showing Claude or Codex how to work with all the content in this folder. Okay. So in your situation, what we want to do is we want to go over here and we want to create a new folder and we're going to say Codex Workspace. Now, within that new folder, we can go over here and we could say JJ's brain, right?

5:08 And so that's where we'll have like all of the things that we want Codex to know about working with us. Then we can get in here and we can create a new one for maybe my projects, right? And this would be projects that I'm working on. Specifically, I'm working on a community right now called the Cloud Code Community, which is a community of the best AI builders in the world. So I could say cloud code community, create a folder for that, and within that folder I can go and create new stuff.

5:34 I could say our member list. I could say something along the lines of our member resources. Actually, I want to bring this over here and so I can start building out this. And then I can go into Codex here and I can say I want to create a new thread and I want to work within this specific project that we just created. So I'm going to go into projects, the Codex workspace. And I could see that I have all this now, projects, et cetera.

6:01 Now I would want to stay at the top level here. This allows me and Codex to use all the information within this right here, right there. It wouldn't be able to do this and this unless I pointed it there. So having this top level folder, I could say high level here. And that's what I'm going to do for this project. Okay. All right. Tip number three is skills. Skills are really important. Skills are what gives Kodaks a clear definition of how you want something done.

6:28 For example, I have a skill for all of my writing on X. I have the way I like to write, my strategy for writing there posts that have worked really well there, all for X. And so that's an X specific skill. And then within my writing folder, I also have a skill for writing on LinkedIn. Again, that's specific to LinkedIn. My posts there, my audience there, my community there, posts that have worked well there, my writing style.

6:52 And so I build this skill within every folder that I create. Let me show you how. So, again, we're going to go back here and we're going to see that we have this folder structure here. Okay. And so what I could do here is I could go into the cloud code community here and I could ask it to create a skill for our cloud coach community. In that sense, I could say, hey, write a skill that helps me draft messages to our community from a moderator voice.

7:18 That could be a specific skill that I create there. Right? And the way that I would approach that, I'd go back into my Codex workspace here and I would talk to Codex and I'd say, hey, Codex, I want you to make a skill for me that helps me write in a better voice for moderator posts. Moderator posts are sent posts that I send out on an ongoing basis that clearly inform the membership what's going on, AI News, they should keep up with events that we're attending, all that kind of stuff.

7:45 And so the way that this would work is I would say something along the lines of, hey, help me write a mod post. And then you would invoke this skill, and then I would send you what I'm looking to write, and then you would just clean it up with the skill that we outlined here to make it sound more of an official, professional mock voice that hits on all the notes we want to hit. Let me know if you have any questions about creating this skill.

8:06 Here we go. And so now I could talk to Kodak about this. And it's going to go in there and it's going to use the skill creator to create this new skill for us. It's going to be a moderator post, voice, et cetera. Now, while this does this, I want to show you something else. Over in my cowork workspace guide, you'll see that within my current projects here, I have different projects, but also in my content creation, you can see that for my LinkedIn posts, I have my LinkedIn Writer skill right here.

8:35 And for my newsletter post, I have my newsletter writer skill here. Now, what I'm trying to show you is that each folder has something new that you want to do. I have a folder for LinkedIn, so I'm going to need a skill for that. I have a folder for my newsletter, so I'm going to need a skill for that. And the skills are as simple as you talking to Codex, telling it what kind of skill you want it to create.

8:58 Now once it creates that skill, we can bring it back up here, we can go in and open it and we could see what it created. And matter of fact, this is just English, this is writing. At any point, we can go in and modify this. Right now, here's the really big unlock. Normally when you're chatting with ChatGPT, you have like a thread that you use and one thread is like your emails thread and the next thread is like your programmatic templates or another one is like matter campaigns, right?

9:26 But that thread has only the memory of like that thread. And if you wanted to keep that conversation going and you started a new thread, you would lose all that context with ChatGPT, not with Codex and not with this structure. By setting up this structure and this skill based on your history, your preferences, etc. You're going to be able to have a through line every time you want to start anything new and it's going to remember what you talked about, it's going to build on itself and become better with you.

9:52 That's the big unlock with Codex that you just can't see with ChatGPT. ChatGPT is fine for asking stuff on a quick one off stuff, but when you actually want to do projects, whether it's in marketing, customer support, et cetera, you want memory, you want self improvement, you want strict guidelines, all that stuff, that's where Codex comes in. You create that folder for each of those areas of discipline. You go into that folder and give it clear instructions, almost like you're onboarding a new employee to that folder.

10:21 What do they need to know to get onboarded? What are the things that show successful examples in this scenario? What are the skills or processes that you want them to go through when they're working through this? You outline it in that folder, Codex is going to listen to it and then use the best fricking AI in the world to help you process it for you to do your work. But 10 times better. Coming back here, we do see that we have this skill being created and now it's asking me a lot of questions about it.

10:48 This is when I go back and forth with Codex to really fine tune this skill, to see how I want to adjust it. And at any time I can go back and direct Codex to that MD file and say, hey, you know what, this skill isn't working yet. Let's update it. We can go back and forth with it. So you can create a new skill. You can Edit your skill. And then I also want to show you one other resource that you can find to find more skills, which is right here.

11:11 Right in here, they have pre built skills for you that are meant to be working with these applications and these processes in a better way. You can also go to a platform like Skills Sh. Find skills here that you might want to use, for example front end design, or if you wanted to use something along the lines of, let's see, browser use, you can go in here, copy this and bring it into codecs and say essentially build this skill and then it will bring that skill in.

11:41 This specific skill right here is called browser use. It lets Codex navigate your browser and do actual browsing on your behalf with it. So it's a cool skill. So point being, you can create skills, you can edit skills, you could find skills online that people have already created for you and bring it into your workspace. Take the time, set up your workspace, set up your folder structure, set up your skills, set up and you will reap the benefits of it for every chat going forward.

12:06 Tip number four, working directly on your computer, which we call locally versus working in the cloud, which is what we use for GitHub. All right, now there's two differences here. Everything that you do locally in Codex here is on your computer. And if you ever wanted to access another computer or anything like that, you wouldn't be able to because we're running on a computer here. That's where using a platform like GitHub comes into play. I could upload this entire workspace and all the skills and everything that we just created into a GitHub project, which then makes it so I can go to any other computer and download that GitHub project to that computer.

12:44 So that way I can open up Codex on that folder structure just like we did. So GitHub is like the cloud here. And right now we're working locally and it's just on our device. But if we wanted to create a repo for like our marketing team or our sales team with this structure in place, we would first start doing it on our device here. Then we would create a GitHub repo. Let me show you how to do that.

13:06 You can see that I have my GitHub here. And by the way, these are all free resources that you can use to get started. My GTM Engineer toolkit, how I'm editing videos with Codex and cloud code. My tips for Claude Cowork getting started there, how I'm doing my writing styles for all my different platforms. And then Claude code for beginners. I'm going to add one here too for Codex as well. However, if I go into repos here, I want to be able to create a new repo.

13:32 A repo is essentially a new folder within the cloud, right? And so I can go to new. And GitHub is free, by the way. Just create an account, you're going to need one. It's very handy. This would be my Codex workspace. And very important to make this private. If you don't make it private, everyone else will be able to see it. So make this private. I will have my workspace there. I'm going to create that repo.

13:54 So now what I could say is I can grab this URL right here, I can copy it and I can go back into Codex and I say, please take this folder and upload it to GitHub here. So I could do that. I can also do a couple different things here. So once I have that, it's asking, do you want to push this folding GitHub? And it's given me a couple of options here. It says, yes, I do, or yeah, I do, don't ask again.

14:18 And since it's with GitHub, I'm just going to say, yeah, I do. Don't ask again. Now that's going to be proceeding there. Now, I could see down here that I have this git repo right here that I just clicked on. And it shows me that I have different branches here, right? So I updated it. Now that is localized. Now if I go back here and click on it here, look at this. Now I have my projects in here and within the project, I have the cloud code community in there.

14:44 Everlast. It's all there. Okay, that's the point. We just took everything locally and put it to the cloud. Now, at any time, I could go back to this repo and I can go back to the workspace right here and I could click here and I could say, here, grab that URL and I can go back in like on a new computer and say, download this repo and then paste that there. And then that would take all the content from the cloud and push it locally to that device.

15:14 Now, going back here for a second, you see that I have different branches, right? I'm not going to get into branches too much here because this is a beginner tutorial. But essentially this would allow, like me or a team member to suggest new changes or to work on new projects in a different branch, like a different environment. So it'd be Able to clone the main environment, try something new in a different environment and then see if it works.

15:37 If not, I can just get rid of that branch and nothing would be affected. Or if it does, I could take those chances, changes from a new branch and bring them into main, which would then allow everyone else to access those. So say you had a team member in your sales org and they're like, hey, I want to set up this new experimental flow for gtm. I say, okay, great, grab Main, grab main here, duplicate it, create your own branch, start creating it and then when you're done and feel like it's good enough, then bring it back in the main for everyone else to access.

16:07 But until then, no one else needs it. So just keep it on your own branch, work on it until it's ready and then just let us know. Then we'll bring it back in the main and then once it goes in the main, we'll tell everyone on the team, hey, get latest from main, which will then allow everyone to sync with GitHub and to grab all the updates and download it locally so then everyone has those changes.

16:26 See how we have exponential power here? We're taking simple day to day executions of like a marketing team, a sales team, or whatever. We're putting together in a programmatic way that allows for AI to work on top of it. And then by having this clear folder structure, everyone on your team can benefit from this. And it's so awesome. I also want to plug the company that I work for, which is 10x. We are a premier AI transformational company.

16:52 We help you implement AI and workflows like this at, at the enterprise and org level. So we could help your sales team, customers for whatever team, go in, build these workflows and then we'll go in and train them how to use them. So if you're a bigger org, an enterprise that wants to become AI first AI native, let us know. It'll be in the description below. But otherwise you take this information, start working on it, bring it back to your team and be the spearhead leader there.

17:16 I know you can do it. All right, let's get on with the next tip. Now this tip, we're talking about threads, handoffs and commits. Now over here, I'm going to show you this navigation panel. So right now you can see that we're working in the Codex workspace and I can go open and close this. Now within each of these we have a thread. We can create a new thread. The way I like to think about this is that each Thread is a task.

17:39 So when I start up a task or a thread, it's like, I need to create a new task within this workspace, right? Or I need to create a task within this workspace. So that's where you start your threads. Now, if I were to start my thread or task here, it would be leveraging all the information in my cowork workspace. It wouldn't have access to all the information in my Codex workspace. That's very important for you to know.

18:03 Now, within each task, similar to ChatGPT, you want one task for one thread. You don't want 10 tasks for one thread because then it gets messy. So let's say in my Codex workspace, I wanted to create a new thing, and this one would be a research flow for my GTM strategy. Right now, this appears here as a thread. I can pin it if I want to stay at the top here, but this thread will be entirely dedicated to planning and researching more about my GTM research flow with Codex.

18:35 And then this one will be over here. And this will be where I modify my creator voice skill that I created for the cloud code community or all that kind of stuff. You see what I'm doing here, I'm keeping clear context within my threads. This will help Codex be very smart and clear about what you want to do in each thread. There won't be any kind of, like, sloppiness or like bad context management, which makes it so it's very clear and focused and doesn't have adhd.

19:00 Also, two more things. There's this ability to have a commit here to also push this to your GitHub. Okay, so if I wanted to make any changes, right, I could say commit. What that does is it's like a local save point on my device of like, hey, I just made something. It's not ready yet, but I just want to make sure that this is saved. I could do a local commit that's going to save it locally.

19:24 Now, the next thing is, I could say I want to push it to GitHub. Now, we haven't actually changed anything, so there's nothing to push, so it's not letting you do it. No new commits to push, right? But when you do change things and when you do it, that would be like, all right, I just finished this task. We just updated this work. Now we just quickly push this back to GitHub so it's on or in the cloud and everyone else can access it.

19:47 So we have our threads, we have our commits and our pushes. All right? Now handoffs. This is a little bit more technical. I'm going to stay out of it. It's again going with like branch management, what not very good for developer workflows. But for what we're doing right now, going to stay away from it. I do want to show you something on the right hand side here. I can toggle that terminal. You know, so many people say like, oh, access the terminal, whatnot, and, and you can use Codex through the terminal.

20:11 And this is the terminal on my computer right here. So I can flip this open anytime to access the terminal. Once you know how to use it, it is very powerful. But we're going to stay out of it for this tutorial because you just don't need it to find success that we're finding with AI here. I also want to show you that we have Diff panel. So when we are working with code, Codex will show you what code is changing, removing, adding in this panel here and you can just open and close that there.

20:37 All right, so that should give you a really good understanding of how to continue to use Codex and to thread your conversations to get more results with it. All right, Tip number six is showing you how to use Codex to help you do more research. All right, so in my Codex workspace here, I am going to go and create a new thread and it's going to be called or I'm going to ask Codex to help me do the following.

21:02 Hey, Codex, we're in the middle of renaming our cloud code community to being something more AI focused because we're now expanding to be an AI agnostic community welcoming builders from Codex, anti gravity, whatever. We just want the best builders in the world, the best leaders in the world that are using AI not only at the engineering level but, but at the building level through gtm, customer support, et cetera, in one community so we can learn together.

21:25 So I need you to do some research for me. Go look up on the web for premier AI communities and suggest 10 to 15 different names that we could use to rebrand cloud code community to this new community name. Do research, report back with your sources and give me my top suggestions. Thank you. So Codex is now going to do this for me and I could change which model I want to use here. Right now I'm using their latest Spark model.

21:49 I am going to push it to 5, 4 because it just came out. I could choose what level I want to work with here. You know, it's not the hardest thing. I'll keep it at medium for now and then we're going to send it off and it's going to start doing a lot of work for us. It's going to browse the Internet for us and it's going to be giving us much better results than we could see with just ChatGPT because this is actually accessing our computer, our terminal commands, all that kind of stuff to go and do deeper research.

22:13 I will say ChatGPT has a good research mode, but this is kind of that where it's also going to save its response in an empty file within our project here. And so then that midway we can reference that MD file, which is just like a doc file of like all the results and that will be further like memory or context to help our AI navigate this project folder in the future. All right, so look, it, it works really fast.

22:38 I'm very impressed with Codex speed. It's much faster than some of the other platforms I've seen. But what it's doing is research suggests these are some of the names here. My top suggestion, AI Builders Guild. That's cool. The AI Builders Network. The AI Operator Collective. That's fun. The Builder Collective. AI Frontier Guild. So we got some really good options here. Best fits by positioning, et cetera. And I can go in here and then these are all the sources that just used.

23:07 Now I could do a lot more with this. I could say something along the lines of, please create this as an MD file, pick the first three of your best top three choices and then help me think of like a tagline and make sure that all of their community handles are not taken yet. Clearly annotating like what websites already taken, what social handles are already taken or not. To help me expand this research to see what could be the best name, but with also making sure that, you know, the social handles are available and everything else starts to make sense.

23:41 So this is the next step in our research process. So that was a really bad prompt. But what I'm trying to show you with this prompt is it just did research for us. Now I'm having to take that research and actually start doing things for us. It's going to take the next step, what you just saved, and it's start working on that, iterating that and just help us take that next step. It's really, really helpful to do this in Codex, especially compared to ChatGPT.

24:05 Right away we're seeing that, hey, this is already an active community, so that won't work. All right. And so now we're just working through the steps of like, we were just chatting with it now it's doing stuff. And let's make sure the stuff that it did for us is like validated before we can move forward with it. That's it for this tip. I could probably stay on here for a while. Let's move on to tip number seven, showing you how to use Codex for your content and your writing.

24:27 Now, for this, I want to go back into my folder here and I want to show you that within this folder I have my cowork workspace. I'm going to go directly into this folder to help Codex navigate stuff that I already have information to. So I'm going to say, hey, Codex, go here, go into content creation. And within content creation, I have four different types of content that I like to create. And within each of that content, you'll see a couple things.

24:51 You'll see successful examples. What does success look like? To me that's very important because Codex is very smart and success differs for everybody. So it doesn't know which thing is successful for you. So you outlining, hey, what scripts are successful for me are very good. So the way that I you could do this is first creating this folder and then you can go on YouTube and find videos. If you were doing a YouTube skill or writing, find videos that work really well for you.

25:22 Copy the URL and add it here and say, add these to my successful post example. It will then look at that video, that transcript, and create an MD file just like it did here for that video. That way it can reference that video in its own format to use it to write new scripts and outlines for you. So this is my successful scripts. This is where my new post scripts go. And then of course, I have my YouTube skill here as well.

25:49 And this is where I'm talking about how I like my outline structure, what this skill does, the outline formats, my hook, my promise, my setup, etc. Different ways I do my, my title. This even covers my cover art and how I do my thumbnails. Of course, I use Nano Banana for my thumbnails as well. So it's a full flow of how I use YouTube baked into a skill within the folder structures here. So let me show you how this would actually work.

26:17 I would go into the workspace that I want to work out of, which is the cowork workspace. Right. Again, I could show you here how I have my cowork workspace. I could even go into cowork workspace. I could even get into something along the lines of the Content Creation Hub if I just wanted to focus on content Creation. Then I can go into YouTube, find a video. I'm going to pull in Alex's video. He does a great job here.

26:39 And I'm going to say something along the lines of I'm going to paste that. I'm going to say, this is Alex's video. He does a really good job with his hook in his beginning and some of the tips are really applicable. However, most of the video is geared towards engineers and my audience is non developers. So let's make sure we add the caveat to this as a successful example, illustrating that I want my videos to lean more in this direction, even though Alex's video leaned in that way and we're using it as a successful example.

27:03 So then that we would do that, we're in that folder and we would say, you know, add to our successful folders. And, and it's going to go off and it's going to create an empty file within that folder, showing, you know, a good example in that way. So we could do this with our research, our reference files, the things that we really like, and start building this up. Then I will be able to spin up a new agent.

27:23 So now I can go back here, create a new agent, and I could say, help me write a YouTube script for 10 tips for codecs for non engineers. So now I could have it within that directory. It's going to pull from my content, my YouTube skill, which you're going to see here in a second, and start writing this for me. Okay, so look at it. Search YouTube. All right. There's already a video in there. That's right, because I used it.

27:47 We're looking at my other post here that I did. That's great. And it's exploring my folder structure. And then it's going to use it to write this for me. Right? And again, it's putting out my hook, my tips, all the way that I like it to be done. Right. It's also going to save it as an empty file within that folder. So now I can go back and forth with this to navigate it or workshop it until I really like it.

28:12 So you can use Codex for your content in a variety of different ways. AI writing is no longer slop. It's slop if you don't know how to use it. But if you know how to use it the right way, give it the right instructions, the right skills, the right context. This tip is helping you go from slop to, to a superpower. So dive into it and make sure you get it there, workshop it, make sure it, it Fits you.

28:33 Like, I still don't just auto post this. I still like test it, judge it, make changes. But as I'm making those changes, I'm letting the AI know what changes I'm making. Because it's a self learning loop that's really important. We'll update the skill, we'll make those changes and then eventually get to a point of just like, I don't even need to make changes anymore because that's my style, that's my voice, that's my tone, that's what I'm looking to say.

28:56 And once you get there, Bonnevity, because it gets really, really good. So keep on working on it until you get there. And that's it for this tip. Tip number eight, Using Codex to spin up sub agents to review your work and to make sure you're putting out really high quality stuff. So over here in Codex again, we have our different threads here, our different project files. We can work in any one of these. We could spin up multiple agents at once.

29:20 And look at right here, it has a blue thing saying, hey, hey, there's been a change, it's ready for you to review it. It's done in here. That work has been completed. Excellent. Again, I can have many agents running in each of these projects running all at the same time. That's when you become an orchestrator and not just an IC or a individual contributor in that way. Right? This is a really important step for not only you, but your org to help you become a 10x builder.

29:48 Now with this in mind, we're going to be creating a lot of stuff. That's when we need to make sure that the quality of this stuff continues to be top notch. This is where I love invoking this quality check tool that I use for nearly all of my work, especially for work that is very sensitive. So we just went in and created a script here, right? And who knows if this script is any good. So I want to have Codex actually help me find out what we need to do to improve the script.

30:19 Here's what I'm going to do. Hey, Codex, I want you to spin up three different sub agents. The goal of these subagents is to review this script and to give me feedback on if this script will work or not. And each of these sub agents is going to have a different Persona. Their first Persona is going to be to build a Persona. The person that's probably watching this video that is in one kind of discipline, gtm, customer support or whatever they want to do more with AI.

30:45 So from Their perspective. That's the first subagent. The second subagent is the executive that is looking to bring AI transformation into their team and they are looking for resources that they could pass on to their colleagues. Use that Persona for agent number two. And agent number three is the general. I'm somewhat interested, I'm a little bit skeptic of AI, what it can actually do, and use that Persona for number three. Now take these three sub agents, use each one or launch an agent for each one to analyze the script here, to do some research, and then give us actionable feedback on what is good, what could be improved, and then take all that feedback, see what common denominators we have, see what things that we don't really need to address, and then use it to implement a new draft of this video for me.

31:30 So what we just did here and Codex is going to start doing in the background is it's going to spin up multiple agents and each of those agents is going to have a Persona that is important to me and my company, and it would be unique to you in your company. Those Personas are who we want this content to be about, et cetera. And so it's going to take Persona for each of the sub agents and launch an agent to do each of its own independent review.

31:56 So one is going to be one review, another is going to be another review, et cetera. Right. And it's going to take on the Persona for each one. Then it's going to report back with what was the key results from each. What are some things that are like common denominators that we should actually do? And then some of the agents will just have one off. Things that like, we can't adjust and we can't make everyone happy here, but we want to know what that is and start thinking about how our audience is going to receive this content before we even put it out there.

32:22 And that's what this tip is all about. Using sub agents to help you check, qualify your work before you even release it, to de risk it and make sure the quality is even better. So here we go. Look at this. We have the builder Persona. This is what is coming in, what works, what misses, what they want added, the executive Persona, what works, what misses, what they want to add it. And there's a skeptical, etc. And then it's going to give me the updated draft with all of it already done.

32:48 Guys, is this a cheat code or what? Like, we're not writing any code here. We're not in a terminal Here I'm showing you how to use a very simple tool, but it's a new way of thinking about how to do this. You could probably at the end of this video do all of this and like become super human at your work. And I hope you do. I hope that you're not intimidated by this because it really, it's a new way to think and it's a new way to like, you got to know what questions to ask and what things to ask it.

33:15 But like you could totally do this and it's so fun. So that's it for this tip. Now our next tip is setting up automations. What happens if we have things that we want to run on a weekly, daily basis? That's where Codex, even better than cloud code, has these automations that allow you to do simple things on a daily basis. They've already pre built a lot of these automations for us and some of it could be like checking analytics, it could be drafting weekly release notes, summarizing everything that happened in GitHub yesterday, all those sorts of things.

33:49 Or we can go in and create a new automation and then this automation would be do Daily report. There it is, Daily report. Now we want this to work out of a certain project. Okay. So we're going to be working out of our cowork workspace because that has my brain that has everything in it already built. Again, I'll put the guide into how I built that folder structure with all that and the props that you can use in the links to this as well, so you can grab that too and just copy and paste that.

34:14 And then I want to say like, hey, what is the prompt for this? So every morning at 6am I want you to review all of my connected sources, want you to view my email, my notion, all that kind of stuff and just help me figure out how I should not only prioritize my day, but the things that I should get to first as soon as I walk into the office and the things that I should know going into the day to make sure I'm blocked and loaded for a fantastic day.

34:40 Boom. So it's going to run that I could choose what days I wanted to run, I could do daily, I could even do like hourly, whatever I could choose if I want to run this locally or on an actual work tree, which is like a cloud environment, I'll keep that and I can go off and I can create this, right? So now I have this automation that will run and do this for me. I can even test it out so I'M going to see what the quality of this is, how this comes in.

35:05 Look, it just created this new thing. It's preparing my daily report. All right, I can get out of here, I can go into here. It's preparing this, it's working on it. And now every day at 6am I'll come in, I'll have my daily report ready for me again. This will be better once you add more resources. So again, if you wanted to go back into MCP servers, if you wanted to install Notion and Linear, then it would be able to include these data sources in that daily recap and make it even more actionable.

35:32 You can also add different servers as well. Like you can go in and add a lot of these custom servers. Nearly every platform these days has a server. So even if it's not listed here, there's a lot more that you can add. So here we are. There it is. That's Automations. You can use it in a variety of different ways. You should probably have at least five automations running for you. You could have, you know, morning reports, you can have, you know, end day insights, things that we learned.

35:58 You can have like an apm, like looking ahead, what do I need to know for tomorrow? There's a lot of different ways you could do this. And with automations and codecs, it makes it really, really simple. So that's it for this step. All right, tip number 10. And our final tip is using slash commands. So when you go into Codex here, you can do a backslash and then you're going to have all these new options available to you.

36:18 Some of these are really, really important. First, if you're actually doing any coding, you can just put in a code review and it's going to start reviewing your code for you and make sure it's really good. That's awesome. If you need to go super speed, you could turn on fast mode and things are going to go even faster, which is insane, right? If you need to add more MCP servers or whatever, I showed you how to do it in the settings.

36:37 But you can also do it this way. You can adjust your personality on the fly. Again, I showed you this in earlier tips, you can do it here. But the big thing that I want to do is I want to show you plan mode and then also accessing your skills here. So with plan mode, this is where you can go into plan mode and say, I want to do X, Y and Z. So an example here would be I want to set up a new project for a new thing that I'm working on.

37:04 It's going to be the AI workshop. This is going to be an event that I host in New York City showing builders and executives how to bring AI to their org. For this I want to set up a folder with an MD file saying like what this is the information about it. I want to set up a writing skill that I can use to write all of the comps for this, like the emails, the posts, all that kind of stuff.

37:25 I then want to set up a landing page for this to actually start accepting, waitlist, all that kind of stuff. Help me put together a plan and let's work through it. I just did that and now what will happen is it's in plan mode here and so you can also shift tab to enter and leave plan mode. But now what it's going to do is going to work through this and put together a to do list and figure out the best way to accomplish this and then it's going to show us the plan before it actually starts doing it.

37:51 So that way I can approve the plan and it can proceed. This is really good. Plan mode is really good when you have multi step things that you want to do, right? I always start with plan mode for anything like more than a quick task, start in plan mode. You're going to find the best results and it's going to take the least amount of tokens as well. So I'll keep, you know, your information running which is where is it?

38:16 We'll go right in the settings here. We'll go to rate limits and you'll be able to see right there these rate limits. It'll keep them healthy because you're using plan mode and whatnot more effectively. And then again here we could see it's asking us questions. So now it's asking us hey, how should we do this? And these are very important questions. We can work through these questions here. We could say hey, current projects, I want this to be built in.

38:39 You know that I want this to be this and I'd submit it and then start working. Plan vote is really powerful. Don't sleep on it. Use it for anything that requires more than just like a one off task. And as you can see here, I was mix and matching with basic like organization prep all the way to actually creating a landing page for me. Codex can do it all. You're not just in chat mode anymore folks.

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