Master Codex with these 15 Tips — Transcript

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1. 0:00I've been using Chai GPT for years now
2. 0:02and it gets so much done for me. And in
3. 0:05this video, I want to share all the best
4. 0:08practices that I've learned from using
5. 0:10it for hundreds of hours to get the most
6. 0:14out of it and to make it as easy as
7. 0:16possible. The first thing that comes to
8. 0:18mind that I don't think most people take
9. 0:20advantage of is browser use. Codeex can
10. 0:24literally browse the internet on your
11. 0:26behalf, saving you so much time. Watch
12. 0:28this. From one prompt, I'm going to have
13. 0:31Codeex go do research on different
14. 0:33cameras that I should purchase for my
15. 0:35studio that are comparable to the camera
16. 0:37I'm using right now, put it in a
17. 0:40spreadsheet, and get all the information
18. 0:42that I need to make a decision on which
19. 0:44camera I should buy. Keep in mind,
20. 0:46that's only one use case for browser
21. 0:48use. There are so many. I've used it to
22. 0:51get refunds, negotiate with customer
23. 0:54service, go through my email and archive
24. 0:56emails that I don't need to look at, and
25. 0:58so much more. 9 minutes later, it put
26. 1:01together this gorgeous Excel spreadsheet
27. 1:04with the different options, prices. We
28. 1:07have the delta in price versus the
29. 1:08camera I already have, the ratings, and
30. 1:11a bunch of information that will help me
31. 1:13make the right decision about the
32. 1:15camera. Very easily done. All done for
33. 1:17me. And Codex can not only control your
34. 1:19browser, it can also control your
35. 1:21computer if you wanted to. And you can
36. 1:23have it organize your files. You can
37. 1:25look for bloat and delete it, make your
38. 1:28computer speed up. It has helped me so
39. 1:30many times clear out my memory, just as
40. 1:32an example. All right, the next thing I
41. 1:33want to show you is a brand new feature
42. 1:35that Chat GPT just launched, which is
43. 1:38voice mode natively in Chat GPT codecs,
44. 1:41where you can actually have it control
45. 1:43the different agents that are working
46. 1:44for you. So check this out. You just
47. 1:46click new chat and then there's this
48. 1:48button right here
49. 1:50and then you can talk to it. And so I
50. 1:53can say, okay, spin up a new thread and
51. 1:55write a poem that's 100 words long.
52. 1:58>> Okay, I'll spin that up. I'll create a
53. 2:01fresh thread for that and keep it
54. 2:03available for you to talk to.
55. 2:06The poem task has the exact length
56. 2:09requirement and it's generating now.
57. 2:11>> Look, it spun up this new thread. You
58. 2:13can see that right here. sent by codeex
59. 2:14from another chat. Write an original
60. 2:16poem that is exactly 100 words long. And
61. 2:19there's the poem. And I can just
62. 2:22continue talking with voice mode
63. 2:24indefinitely. I can run all of my
64. 2:27agents, all of my threads, all through
65. 2:30voice. It's actually quite incredible.
66. 2:33And you need to be using it. Here's
67. 2:35another thing you might not know. You
68. 2:37can publish basically anything to the
69. 2:40public web using something called chatpt
70. 2:42sites. And as an example, let me publish
71. 2:45this poem. Publish the poem using chat
72. 2:48pt sites that I just wrote.
73. 2:51>> Got it. I'll check the publish path. Now
74. 2:53>> whether you need to publish a
75. 2:55spreadsheet or a PowerPoint or your
76. 2:58website, a portfolio, anything, it's
77. 3:00very easy using chatgbt sites which is
78. 3:02built in to chat GBT. So, here you can
79. 3:05see it is saying create site. This is
80. 3:07using the site's feature. And here is
81. 3:10the actual poem designed, which I didn't
82. 3:12ask it to do, but great. And this is
83. 3:14what the website's actually going to
84. 3:15look like. So, here we go. It's
85. 3:17finishing publishing. By default, it'll
86. 3:19publish it as a private website, but all
87. 3:21you have to do is say make it public,
88. 3:23and it'll be public. Here's the URL. You
89. 3:26can send it to anybody. So, chat GPT
90. 3:29sites, very useful. Put something on the
91. 3:31web, share it with anybody, share it
92. 3:32with another agent, by the way. You can
93. 3:34just copy that URL and give it to
94. 3:35another agent. Then that agent has
95. 3:37access to whatever you just published.
96. 3:39It's super useful. Next, a couple
97. 3:41quality of life things I want to show
98. 3:43you. First, pinning. So, if you don't
99. 3:45know about pinning, you can pin threads,
100. 3:48chats on the top of your left sidebar.
101. 3:51So, right here is the pinned category.
102. 3:53You can see it right there. All of these
103. 3:55are the ones that I've pinned. And if
104. 3:57you want to pin something, it's actually
105. 3:58quite easy. You just rightclick on it
106. 4:01and do pin chat. There's also this nice
107. 4:03little pin chat icon that you can click
108. 4:05right here as well. What I use that for
109. 4:07is to just keep track of the most
110. 4:10important conversations that I'm working
111. 4:11on. So, as you can see, I have a bunch
112. 4:13of different projects that I'm working
113. 4:15on all at the same time. Sometimes
114. 4:17things finish and they're kind of way
115. 4:19down in that list and if it's something
116. 4:21I want to remember and keep a close eye
117. 4:23on, I just pin it. So, next I want to
118. 4:26talk about one of the things that
119. 4:27intimidates most new users to chat GPT
120. 4:30and AI in general, which is model
121. 4:32selection. But I'm going to break it
122. 4:34down very simply for you. But first,
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155. 5:45viewers only. One of the most important
156. 5:47concepts I want to try to convey today
157. 5:49is which model do you choose? There are
158. 5:53many different flavors of each of the
159. 5:55models. There are different thinking
160. 5:56efforts. And choosing the right model
161. 5:58for the right task will not only
162. 6:01decrease the amount of time it spends on
163. 6:04each task. It'll increase the quality,
164. 6:06it'll maximize your usage. So you have
165. 6:09this fixed quota that they give you each
166. 6:12week. and you don't want to just blow
167. 6:13through the quota using kind of the best
168. 6:17biggest model on a simple task. So right
169. 6:20here in the chat you click right there
170. 6:23and first you select the model you have
171. 6:255.6 and three flavors of that Luna Terra
172. 6:28and Soul. You still have 5.5, 5.4, 5.4
173. 6:32mini. I'm mainly using these three. Luna
174. 6:35and Soul are my go-to. I'm either using
175. 6:38Luna to do things really quickly and
176. 6:40save money or I'm using Soul for my most
177. 6:43complex tasks. Now, within Soul, once
178. 6:46you've selected that, you also select
179. 6:49your thinking effort. For me, I'm
180. 6:51usually using medium, high, or extra
181. 6:54high. I rarely use light, and I rarely
182. 6:56use the max setting for soul. And the
183. 6:59way that I think about whether to use
184. 7:01soul, or Luna is obviously based on the
185. 7:04complexity of the task. for the really
186. 7:06hard task I'm using the bigger model
187. 7:08soul. So let's say I'm building a
188. 7:09website I will generally use soul to
189. 7:12actually build the website and then the
190. 7:14fine-tuning of the website like changing
191. 7:17fonts or colors or moving text around
192. 7:19moving images around that can all be
193. 7:21done with Luna because it's capable
194. 7:24enough for those simple changes. All
195. 7:26right, the next thing I want to show you
196. 7:27is scheduled tasks. On the left side,
197. 7:30there's a little tab that says
198. 7:32scheduled. And this is where all of your
199. 7:33scheduled tasks go. Scheduled tasks are
200. 7:36exactly what it sounds like. They are
201. 7:38tasks that run on a schedule. So, I have
202. 7:41three that I use every day. I have this
203. 7:43daily stale file cleanup suggestions.
204. 7:45And if I click into it, you can actually
205. 7:47see the full prompt. I have daily Astro
206. 7:50production log review. Astro is a
207. 7:52project I'm working on. And basically
208. 7:54what I'm asking it to do is look at the
209. 7:55production logs for any errors and tell
210. 7:58me about them. And then daily forward
211. 8:00future production health. Just checking
212. 8:01forwardfuture.com for any issues. It
213. 8:04just goes uses browser control makes
214. 8:06sure everything works. Then within it
215. 8:09you can say okay run in a new chat or an
216. 8:12existing chat. So a new chat means it's
217. 8:14going to spin up a new thread on the
218. 8:16left side every single time this runs.
219. 8:18An existing chat means it will use the
220. 8:20same thread every single time. I don't
221. 8:22really see a huge difference between
222. 8:24these. It's more just personal
223. 8:25preference. Then we have project. You
224. 8:29can put this inside a project inside
225. 8:31these folders over here or you can just
226. 8:34leave it outside and either one it and
227. 8:36either one works. Again, maybe you want
228. 8:39to create like a recurring task project
229. 8:41that all of them get grouped into.
230. 8:43That's actually not a bad idea. Uh then
231. 8:46you select the model. And this is what I
232. 8:49really like to do. Luna is so
233. 8:52inexpensive and fast that you can set up
234. 8:55a ton of these scheduled tasks to run
235. 8:57daily. Anything you can think of that
236. 9:00you do on a recurring basis, you should
237. 9:02set up as a task and use GPT 5.6 Luna
238. 9:06Max Reasoning and you're really not
239. 9:08paying much for those tokens. It is
240. 9:11nearly free to have these scheduled
241. 9:13tasks running every single day. So, you
242. 9:15should really be scheduling a lot of
243. 9:17tasks for yourself. One that seems
244. 9:19really useful, which is a suggestion by
245. 9:21Chai GPT, is to start each workday with
246. 9:24a summary of your calendar, unread
247. 9:26email, and priorities. This is kind of
248. 9:28an obvious one, but super useful, and
249. 9:31you can use Luna for this. It is more
250. 9:33than capable to do that specific task.
251. 9:36So, definitely make sure you're using
252. 9:39scheduled tasks. The next thing I want
253. 9:40to show you are plugins, which is a way
254. 9:43to give your chat GPT many more
255. 9:46abilities. and specifically with apps
256. 9:49that you already use. So you can give it
257. 9:51access to control things like Google
258. 9:53documents, to use PDFs, to use
259. 9:55spreadsheets. Here I give it access to
260. 9:58GitHub and now it knows how to use
261. 10:00GitHub, Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar.
262. 10:02There's so many of them. And if you come
263. 10:04in here, you can search for all the apps
264. 10:06that you already use. Aauna and Notion
265. 10:09and Linear and Dropbox. Most likely if
266. 10:11you're using a piece of software, it
267. 10:13will appear as a plugin that you can
268. 10:16give access to chat GPT. And so by doing
269. 10:18that, you make it so that Chat GPT
270. 10:21doesn't have to guess at how to use one
271. 10:23of these products. And so if you want it
272. 10:25to check your email for you, give it
273. 10:28access to Gmail and it'll just know how
274. 10:30to use Gmail. The next thing I want to
275. 10:32briefly talk about are skills. skills
276. 10:35are incredibly useful if you do the same
277. 10:37kind of task over and over again, but
278. 10:39it's not quite scheduled. It's just
279. 10:42something, some kind of workflow, some
280. 10:44kind of process that you do that you
281. 10:46have to usually type out this long
282. 10:48prompt, tell Chad GPT about it. You can
283. 10:51be making skills from it. And not only
284. 10:53that, you can not only create your own
285. 10:56skills, but you can actually find a ton
286. 10:59of skills that people have created and
287. 11:01published for basically every use case.
288. 11:04And to invoke a skill, all you do is
289. 11:06type slash and then the list of skills
290. 11:09appears right here. And you could just
291. 11:11start typing if you want. But these are
292. 11:13all the different skills that I have
293. 11:14given to my chat GPT. And it's awesome.
294. 11:17So if you find yourself doing something
295. 11:18again and again, just make a skill from
296. 11:21it. And here's an example. Let's say, I
297. 11:23know this is kind of silly, but I need
298. 11:25to actually do research on a new camera
299. 11:27once a week. So, I can just say, "Create
300. 11:29me a skill from this camera research
301. 11:34thread." I hit enter and it'll create me
302. 11:36a skill. It'll save it. And then going
303. 11:38forward, I just type slash and then
304. 11:40whatever it's named. All right. Next, I
305. 11:42want to show you something incredibly
306. 11:43useful. Slashgo.
307. 11:46Slashgo makes CHP run for a very long
308. 11:51time. But not just for the sake of
309. 11:53running a long time. It is for
310. 11:55specifically achieving some goal. And
311. 11:58you're basically telling Chad GBT,
312. 12:00continue to run until you hit this goal.
313. 12:03And a goal can be one of two things. It
314. 12:06can be something verifiable. Continue
315. 12:08until the speed of my website is 50%
316. 12:12faster than it is today. Or it can be
317. 12:14LLM as a judge and you can say continue
318. 12:18until the speed of my website is as fast
319. 12:21as you think possible. And so you can
320. 12:24see the difference. One is very
321. 12:25verifiable. it is something that is a
322. 12:27concrete number and the other you're
323. 12:29leaving up to the LLM to decide but
324. 12:32either way you can do that. So as soon
325. 12:34as I hit /goal you can see this little
326. 12:36goal right here and then I will describe
327. 12:40the goal and define a measurable outcome
328. 12:42and once I do that this can run for a
329. 12:45long time. I've had Chad GPT agents
330. 12:47running for days using goal. So be
331. 12:51careful using it. But it can be very
332. 12:53powerful if you really do have a
333. 12:55concrete goal in mind. And keep in mind
334. 12:58you can give it limits other than the
335. 13:00goal. You can say, "Okay, don't run for
336. 13:03more than 3 hours." Just as an example,
337. 13:05goals are super useful. They're a very
338. 13:08advanced feature, but can be extremely
339. 13:10powerful. And by the way, if you need
340. 13:12help figuring out the right goal to
341. 13:15create or inspiration for the best goals
342. 13:18that might be relevant to you, I'll drop
343. 13:20a link down below to that and also the
344. 13:23loop library which lists a bunch of
345. 13:26awesome loops. You can call them loops
346. 13:28or goals that you can use right now. All
347. 13:30right, the next thing to keep an eye on
348. 13:32is your quota usage. Once you start
349. 13:35using your Chat GPT subscription a lot,
350. 13:38you need to actually know how much of
351. 13:40your quota you're using. And so there's
352. 13:43a weekly quota. And you can actually
353. 13:46find it by clicking on your name,
354. 13:48clicking your usage percentage. You can
355. 13:49see I've already run out of quota. And
356. 13:52it will say right here how much quota
357. 13:54you have left, as well as the reset
358. 13:56date. So it's August 7th. I'm recording
359. 13:58this on August 4th. I have three more
360. 14:01days before the reset. and I've already
361. 14:03used all of my quota. Now, in settings,
362. 14:05if you go to usage and billing, you can
363. 14:07see more information. You can see your
364. 14:08plan. You can see your current balance.
365. 14:10Uh, and then if you have resets, they're
366. 14:13called banked resets. You can use them
367. 14:15right here. And what a banked reset is
368. 14:17is the Chad GPT team will often, it's
369. 14:21been a lot lately, give you resets of
370. 14:23your quota. So, you can try to use all
371. 14:25of your quota and if you still have a
372. 14:27few days left, like I do, you can click
373. 14:30reset and your quota will go back up to
374. 14:32100. Keep in mind, they do expire. So,
375. 14:35make sure to check right here where it
376. 14:37says usage limit resets if you have any.
377. 14:39And it'll also say the expiration date.
378. 14:41So, keep an eye on that. All right. The
379. 14:43next thing I want to show you, which is
380. 14:44really a power user feature, is the fact
381. 14:47that a single thread can see all of your
382. 14:51other threads in chat GPT. And this is
383. 14:54actually super useful. It might not seem
384. 14:56so at first glance, but it is extremely
385. 14:59valuable. I have tons of threads and
386. 15:02sometimes I have threads that conflict
387. 15:04with each other. Sometimes I forget
388. 15:07where a thread is or what I did, what
389. 15:09was the conclusion. All of that you can
390. 15:11check within a thread. And you can also
391. 15:14have a thread delegate to other threads.
392. 15:17You can have it create other threads.
393. 15:19Just think of chatpt as one giant
394. 15:23singular system. The threads are really
395. 15:26just for you to help better organize
396. 15:27your thoughts. But a single agent can
397. 15:31access any of these threads. You can ask
398. 15:33it questions about any of these threads
399. 15:35to summarize it. You can have it spin up
400. 15:37new threads and delegate work out to it
401. 15:40and wait for it to finish and then
402. 15:41continue in the thread you're on. There
403. 15:43are so many different things you could
404. 15:44do. I could say, you know, which of my
405. 15:46recent threads was about a poem. So, I
406. 15:49forget where it was. I can't find it for
407. 15:51some reason. And it'll find it for me.
408. 15:54So, I asked which of my recent threads
409. 15:55was about a poem, and it found the two
410. 15:58threads. I said, "Link me and it
411. 16:00actually opened up that specific
412. 16:02thread." And now I can say, "Okay, in
413. 16:04that thread, write a 50word poem." And
414. 16:06you can see how threads can control
415. 16:09other threads. So, I'm sending that
416. 16:11request to the 100word poem thread now.
417. 16:13And there we go. Write an original poem
418. 16:16that is exactly 50 words long. And you
419. 16:18can see again sent by codeex from
420. 16:19another chat. So it can be super useful.
421. 16:21So I definitely recommend checking that
422. 16:23out. All right. Next I want to show you
423. 16:24the multiple ways you can actually use
424. 16:26chat GPT. Some of this is for coding use
425. 16:28cases but you can use this generally as
426. 16:31well. So first the obvious one is local.
427. 16:33You're just using it on your computer
428. 16:35and you open up the chat GPT app and
429. 16:37there it is. Everything that your agent
430. 16:39is doing is local on your computer. Next
431. 16:42is cloud. If you're coding, you can put
432. 16:45your coding project in a cloud
433. 16:47environment so that codeex is running
434. 16:50there and will actually run the code,
435. 16:52execute the code, edit the code all
436. 16:54within that cloud environment. You're
437. 16:56basically putting it on somebody else's
438. 16:57server. This is nice because you can run
439. 17:01many more agents in parallel whereas
440. 17:03that might slow down your actual home
441. 17:06computer quite a bit. And last, the
442. 17:08thing that I use all the time is called
443. 17:11connections. Connections allows you to
444. 17:13remotely connect to your computer that
445. 17:15has Chat GPT running from any other
446. 17:18device. So I am frequently taking my
447. 17:20phone. I'm out somewhere and I want to
448. 17:22code something. I will open Chat GPT on
449. 17:25my phone and it will have a direct
450. 17:27connection to my desktop computer. So
451. 17:30all of that code that I've been working
452. 17:31on is then available anywhere in the
453. 17:33world on any device that I'm using. So
454. 17:36the way to set that up is you want to go
455. 17:38into settings down here under
456. 17:39connections. You want to say control
457. 17:42this Mac allow connections. Yes. So
458. 17:44you're going to click this add button.
459. 17:46It's going to give you this QR code. You
460. 17:47simply take out your phone, point it at
461. 17:49it, and it'll open up Chad GPT and ask
462. 17:52you to accept the connection. And then
463. 17:54from then on out in the Chad GPT app on
464. 17:57your phone, you can connect to your
465. 17:58desktop computer. So then on your phone,
466. 18:00there's this little remote tab. You just
467. 18:03click that. And then at the top, you can
468. 18:05see I'm now connected to my Mac Studio
469. 18:08and all of the threads that I have on my
470. 18:10Mac Studio are now available to me from
471. 18:13my phone. I can continue coding from
472. 18:15anywhere. So, those are a bunch of ways
473. 18:17to get the most out of Chad GPT, the
474. 18:19most out of Codeex. Hopefully, you found
475. 18:21value. And I know I talked about loops.
476. 18:23I actually made an entire video
477. 18:24specifically about loops. Check that out
478. 18:26right here.