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Codex

Software

95 creators

Running PM OS, scheduled desk booking, and bug bashing via browser use

"Now I'm basically in Codex 100% of the time. One, I think browser use has gotten really good. ... But it's also a total beast at bug bashing."

Ezra Mechaber

Inside Figma’s PM OS: skills, agents, and Auto XP ▶ 18:30
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"I love Codex. You could rip Codex out of my cold dead fingers."

Claire Vo

Inside Figma’s PM OS: skills, agents, and Auto XP ▶ 35:58

Coding, internal business tasks, and analyzing user analytics

"You should let Claude or Codex have at it and really understand what your users are doing... We use Claude Code and Codex for various coding and internal business stuff."

Yoni Smolyar

How I Built It: $400K/Month iOS App ▶ 7:38
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Amazon

Software

12 creators

Buying cheap shoes and sunglasses

"You can get cheap shoes on Amazon. Now, are they maybe blowing my knees out? That's entirely possible. I think people expect me to dress expensively because I could if I wanted to. And I buy my nine-dollar shades off Amazon."

Tom Bilyeu

Hegseth Goes Full Crusader & Launches Project Meridian With Elon and Palmer Luckey ▶ 1:45:09
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Online shopping for general goods with reliable delivery and returns

"My personal revealed preference is I would almost always want it from Amazon because I trust it's going to get there. I know where to go to look to see if it's on its way. I know where to go to process a return if I want to do that."

Ben Thompson

Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLaren Rebrand ▶ 1:27:34

Brand awareness marketing and retail distribution channel for a beverage CPG brand

"We were 100% on Amazon from day one, which was a decision we made as a board to do that. And it was such a good decision, but you don't make a lot of money on Amazon as a beverage. We saw it as a great marketing tactic for awareness because it's in so many ..."

Allison Ellsworth

$2B founder reveals the niches that can make you $$$ (ft. Allison Ellsworth, Poppi) ▶ 11:36
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Devin

Software

4 creators

Coding agent tasks where token efficiency is prioritized

"The Cognition Devin tool is actually very token efficient, and so that's a place we've chosen to adopt more."

Rayan Krishnan

Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence ▶ 24:08
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Primary cloud-based engineering agent for bugs, new features, PR review, investor updates, customer success triage, and operations

"I live in Devin. I live in the cloud. All of my engineering almost — I've got probably 10 to 15 threads and I bucket them in folders. I spent at one point $5,000 on Devin and then it went up to $20,000 one month."

Ryan Carson

How I manage 15 AI agents 24/7 as a solo founder | Ryan Carson ▶ 10:01

Running parallel cloud agent sessions to write, test, review, and ship code; browser testing automation; automated self-improvement loops

"I use Devin. Devin is created by Cognition. I think it's one of the best software factories in the industry. It's not cheap, but it's good. They have their cloud environment really nailed down. It records a video, it annotates the video, it then looks at it..."

Ryan Carson

Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents ▶ 6:00
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Test-Driven Development

Technique

2 creators

Writing tests before code to ensure correctness, now made easier by AI generating the tests

"The first bug I fixed on Claude Code I asked Claude, 'Hey, I want to do test-driven development. Help me write the test first. Make sure it fails and then we'll actually do the fix.' The fact that test generation used to just be this tax I remember having t..."

Fiona Fung

What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Claude Code and Cowork) ▶ 16:22
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"This is the most important thing when you're working with coding agents is they have to test the code. The best way to do that is to use a programming technique that we've been using for decades called test-driven development."

Simon Willison

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming ▶ 1:08:57
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Eval-driven development

Technique

1 creator

Fixing AI conversation quality issues; ensuring Claude Code produces the correct output for specific edge cases

"Always write a failing eval first, then write the code to fix it, prove that it works by seeing that the eval passes, and then seeing how the rest of the evals in your suite pass and then open up a PR. It's basically kind of the only way we work now when we..."

Eddie Kim

How Gusto’s CTO uses Claude Code to ship like a startup ▶ 38:31
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