Full Workshop: Setting Yourself Up for Success —Jason Liu, OpenAI Codex
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
A hands-on walkthrough from an OpenAI Codex insider on treating Codex as a general-purpose AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → — setting up a memory vault, orchestrating collaborating assistant threads, and structuring long-running loops — giving engineers concrete patterns for pushing coding agents beyond one-shot tasks.
Key quotes
“Tony Stark is not texting Jarvis, right? And there's really no future when text input is the thing that matters.”
Jason Liu
“computer use was the first time in a long time I really sort of felt the AGI of being at work”
Jason Liu
“I'm just the AI's assistant to get more context that the AI can't get”
Jason Liu
“it's like onboarding an employee in the in the first you know two three months of onboarding an employee”
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“people should not be afraid of low reasoning. Like X high is not like X high results.”
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