Ep 805: Codex Record and Replay: How to Teach an Agent Once Your Most Time-Consuming Workflows
Ep 805: Codex Record and Replay: How to Teach an Agent Once Your Most Time-Consuming Workflows
Ep 805: Codex Record and Replay: How to Teach an Agent Once Your Most Time-Consuming Workflows
This episode explores OpenAI's new Codex Record and Replay feature, which allows users to automate workflows by simply demonstrating tasks on their Mac. The host, Jordan Wilson, provides a live demonstration, showing how to create reusable, editable skill files from recorded screen actions, shifting the focus from traditional prompting to direct demonstration.
The podcast demonstrates how Codex's Record and Replay feature records screen actions to create editable skill.md files, which are described as key business artifacts. The host advises starting with low-stakes tasks to avoid security risks and emphasizes the importance of reviewing skill files for accuracy. A practical example is shown: automating the extraction of top newsletter stories, pasting them into NotebookLM, and generating an audio overview. The feature is currently limited to Mac users outside the EU, UK, and Switzerland. The host highlights that skills can be reused across platforms like Claude Desktop and that Codex's ability to ingest and understand video is a first for OpenAI. The episode concludes by emphasizing that skills and plugins are the new measure of AI value, encouraging users to record mundane workflows across browser tabs using Chrome profiles for logged-in accounts.
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Demonstration replaces prompting for AI agents
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Currently only records screen actions.
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Small multi-step tasks often go undone due to a busy schedule.
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Record and Replay automates daily workflows.
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Record and Replay automates the entire workflow.
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Codex can ingest and understand video, a first for OpenAI
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Record and Replay creates reusable skill files.
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Simplest way to build automation skills
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Skills and plugins are the new measure of AI value
