Automate tasks with the Codex app — Transcript

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1. 0:00So there is a lot about the job
2. 0:02isn't actually that fun that I have
3. 0:05now automated away almost entirely.
4. 0:09And so I'll show you a few of those
5. 0:10here in our automations tab. And we've
6. 0:13got a bunch running now, but we can
7. 0:15run down a few of these because I kind
8. 0:16of have set up a few different types
9. 0:18of automation. And the first type is
10. 0:19just sort of information. I'm asking
11. 0:21Codex to look at the last day of
12. 0:23commits into this section of our
13. 0:26monorepo. And basically group them,
14. 0:28tell me who worked on what, what got
15. 0:31done, what do I need to know about.
16. 0:32And so I wake up in the morning with
17. 0:34almost like a, if you've used JotGPT
18. 0:36Pulse, it's like a personalized pulse
19. 0:38that I walk, I open the app in the
20. 0:40morning and sitting there is like,
21. 0:41here's what happened yesterday in the
22. 0:43code base, which is super,
23. 0:46super useful. So I have one called
24. 0:47Upskill. And what Upskill does is
25. 0:50it looks at the last day of skill
26. 0:52usage. So it says, hey, skills are
27. 0:55really useful, but sometimes they take
28. 0:57a little bit of tinkering to get
29. 0:58right. And so it looks at Codex usage
30. 1:00throughout the past day and detects if
31. 1:03any skills, like if Codex had any
32. 1:05trouble with skills or if any of the
33. 1:07scripts didn't work correctly or if
34. 1:10like something could be sped up. And
35. 1:11it makes improvements to the skills.
36. 1:13So it's upskilling like overnight.
37. 1:15Like I'm going to sleep, I wake up,
38. 1:16Codex is smarter in the morning based
39. 1:18on what we're trying to do here.
40. 1:20Similarly, update AgentsMD, like
41. 1:22this I just have run every, I don't
42. 1:25know, six hours. And it just looks at
43. 1:27what we've been doing. And if there's
44. 1:28any like disagreements or
45. 1:30misunderstandings that I've had with
46. 1:32Codex or things where things took
47. 1:33longer to communicate than, or I used
48. 1:36some shorthands that Codex wasn't
49. 1:37familiar with, it will just add that
50. 1:39to the personalization. So that next
51. 1:41time things can just be quicker.
52. 1:44I've got a few others that are
53. 1:45integrated deeply into our other
54. 1:47tools. And so one of them is Sentry.
55. 1:50This is kind of a different type of
56. 1:52automation where it's going to go
57. 1:54through on whatever schedule, whatever
58. 1:56cadence, and it picks off one of the
59. 1:58top Sentry issues. So that could be
60. 2:00like a performance regression or
61. 2:01a crash or an error that's being
62. 2:04thrown in the app. And it like goes
63. 2:07through all of the information that we
64. 2:09have about it, the logs, the maps,
65. 2:12everything that Sentry has, it looks
66. 2:13at the code base and it picks
67. 2:16something to fix basically. And
68. 2:18automations have memory. So it
69. 2:20remembers what it tried to solve last
70. 2:22time. And so you're not going to get a
71. 2:23PR like solving the number one issue
72. 2:25every hour, right? But it's really
73. 2:28good because what this, you know, what
74. 2:30this type of automation does is it
75. 2:32allows us to focus on what is going to
76. 2:35make the Codex app great to use and
77. 2:37useful and joyful and all of the
78. 2:40things that like, you know,
79. 2:43bugs and things that fall through
80. 2:45cracks that like aren't quite as
81. 2:46fun to figure out, at least for me.
82. 2:48I know some people love it.
83. 2:51That stuff can happen kind of behind
84. 2:52the scenes, right? And so it's really
85. 2:54common that you run into merge
86. 2:57conflicts when you try to merge your
87. 2:58thing. And like you find, you know,
88. 2:59you iterate on your approach and
89. 3:01you've got like different types of
90. 3:03people giving reviews and then you're
91. 3:05finally ready to merge something and
92. 3:06there's a conflict. Your CI is failing
93. 3:08for, you know, some small reason.
94. 3:10You got to kind of dive into that. And
95. 3:12so I don't like dealing with any of
96. 3:14that. Maybe, you know. Most people
97. 3:17probably don't. Some people love doing
98. 3:19that and they work on CI tools.
99. 3:22But I have a green PRs automation here
100. 3:24that uses some of our skills. So
101. 3:26we use BuildKai, we use GitHub. And so
102. 3:28what this does is it checks if I have
103. 3:31any open PRs and I usually have like
104. 3:34at any given time between 10 and
105. 3:3520 PRs these days open at a time
106. 3:38because of the Codex app. Separate
107. 3:41problem. And this is going to go
108. 3:43through and it's going to say like, do
109. 3:45any have CI failures because of like,
110. 3:48you know, something that like linted
111. 3:50wrong or like didn't get caught in the
112. 3:53pre -push? Or maybe it's going to
113. 3:55merge conflict because someone is like
114. 3:57also changing it because we're rushing
115. 3:59to, you know, finish up a project or
116. 4:01something like that. And this is going
117. 4:03to go through and it's going to make
118. 4:04sure that all my PRs are green. It's
119. 4:06going to update the base branch.
120. 4:07It's going to intelligently resolve
121. 4:09merge conflicts by looking at like
122. 4:10what have people been trying to do. So
123. 4:12it's not just a factual like, you
124. 4:15know, I'm going to clean up the like
125. 4:17conflict markers. It can look at,
126. 4:20oh, like Joey was putting in this
127. 4:21feature. So we changed this block for
128. 4:23this reason. I'm trying to do this.
129. 4:25I'm changing it and there's a conflict
130. 4:26and like kind of knows how to do that.
131. 4:28And so that's a very long way of
132. 4:30saying my PRs are always green.