working on a deep research skill for codex
remind me to share it tomorrow, i will leave it in a self improving /goal loop for the rest of the night
hopefully i wake up to a banger
might be trash
we will find out in the morning
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Codex /goal idea you can try, I'm running it now: request all your data from X, then give the export to codex and ask it to do this, customized for you, for example around design, etc.:
Go through my liked items from the last 3 months.
Follow this process:
1 - Filter only items related to programming, products, AI, startups, design, business, and tools. Ignore memes and pure entertainment.
2 - Download the relevant items locally, including URL, author, date, and context. Go through the comments too.
3 - For articles, read the full text, not just the summary.
4 - For each strong item, research additional context: repo, docs, author, company/project, similar tools, and practical use cases.
5 - Finally, give me a ranked shortlist of the highest-value items: title, link, why it matters, what I should take away from it, and any suggested next step.
It's honestly crazy what's possible with the latest long-running goals and capabilities of the models, where you can just go scrape a competitor's website, all the help docs, roadmap, or feature requests, transcribe them from YouTube videos, and basically map out a whole product. Combine it with karpathy-style wiki and boom.
If Codex keeps telling you that browser or computer use is not available in the thread during tool call, just tell it in a new thread to look through the historic threads and fix this issue so that it's always available in every thread.
Nobody has figured out how to price AI.
Cursor just moved Bugbot from $40/seat/month to usage-based pricing at ~$1-1.50 per run. They realized seat-based doesn't work when an agent does variable amounts of work per user.
Salesforce has changed Agentforce pricing 3 times in 18 months.
โ Started at $2 per conversation
โ Added Flex Credits at $0.10 per action
โ Added per-user licenses at $125/user/month
โ Now they offer ALL of the above and let customers self-select
In the first two quarters, they closed 5,000 Agentforce deals but only 3,000 were paid. Customers wanted to try it but couldn't commit to a pricing model they didn't understand.
Meanwhile, newer AI companies like Paper are still launching with plain per-seat pricing ($20/user/month). Even for a product built around AI agents.
Everyone is experimenting. No one has converged.
The three models I'm seeing...
๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐: Simple to sell, but disconnected from value. If one user runs 100 agent tasks and another runs 2, same price. Doesn't make sense long-term.
๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ/๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐-๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ: Aligns with value, but creates anxiety. Customers don't know what they'll spend. And it can blow up on both sides.
We experienced this firsthand. We bought a GTM product with credit-based pricing. We burned our entire expected yearly allotment in two months. We were unhappy. The vendor had to replenish our credits at no cost to keep us. Nobody won.
๐ข๐๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ-๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ: The dream. "Pay when the agent actually does the thing." But incredibly hard to define what a "successful outcome" even is. Who decides? The vendor? The customer?
I think we're going to end up somewhere in the middle. Some base fee, plus usage on top. Basically how cloud infrastructure already works. But honestly no one knows yet.
We're figuring this out at Pylon too. It's one of the harder problems we're working through as we roll out more AI products.