The Dawn of Codex-native Apps
Plus: Delegation versus collaboration, Dan’s inbox-zero Codex workflow, and the agentic version of Musk’s five rules of automation
TL;DR
- The AI work landscape is bifurcating into tasks that can be delegated to agents and tasks that require close human-AI collaboration.
- A meta-skill is emerging: knowing when to delegate and when to stay close to the AI.
- Dan Shipper's workflow uses Codex and Cora to manage his inbox by delegating routine tasks and collaborating on drafts and decisions within a shared document.
- Elon Musk's five rules of automation, originally for hardware, are being adapted for AI agent workflows, focusing on questioning requirements, deleting unnecessary steps, simplifying tasks, accelerating feedback, and automating last.
- The key challenge in AI deployment is not model intelligence, but how agents are built, run, and integrated into organizational workflows, including context, permissions, handoffs, and human relationships.