How PMs Use the Codex App
How PMs Use the Codex App


Author: OpenAI – Duration: 00:02:20
Alexander Embiricos (Codex Team Product Manager) demonstrates how he uses Codex skills to make a small change to the product, diagnose a Buildkite outage, and improve the skills so the next PR is faster. Takeaways: – Skills are a shortcut for repeated workflows like Buildkite logs. – When a skill fails, fix the root cause and update the skill. – The real gain is cumulative: the code base gets easier over time. This is the loop: ship the fix, then learn the workflow. Chapters: 00:00 Background: Be careful before marking engineers 00:16 A confusing button and a quick team check 00:32 Remove the button, then experience a PR failure 00:46 Use the Buildkite skill instead of digging through the logs 01:09 Install the Buildkite token 01:20 Update the skill to work next time 01:53 Loop inductive: feedback – correct – improve the skill 02:06 Cumulative gain: the Codex improves over time






