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  long-running work streams, and preparing to work in loops. Speaker: Jason Liu
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  Agents SDK, and the OpenAI API. Before OpenAI, he created Instructor and
  taught developers how to build reliable AI applications. X/Twitter:
  https://x.com/jxnlco LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jxnlco Website:
  https://jxnl.co/ --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary,
  timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page:
  https://ai.engineer/talks/il1c1a2FufU-full-workshop-setting-yourself-up-for-success-jason-liu-openai-codex
  Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing
  page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs
  and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference
  returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS
  2026 in Sydney ---
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# Full Workshop: Setting Yourself Up for Success —Jason Liu, OpenAI Codex

Jason Liu walks through how Codex works as a general tool for controlling your computer: setting up a memory vault and assistant threads, prompting it to collaborate with other threads, exploring computer use, thinking about long-running work streams, and preparing to work in loops. Speaker: Jason Liu — Developer Experience, OpenAI Jason helps developers get more from Codex, the Agents SDK, and the OpenAI API. Before OpenAI, he created Instructor and taught developers how to build reliable AI applications. X/Twitter: https://x.com/jxnlco LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jxnlco Website: https://jxnl.co/ --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/il1c1a2FufU-full-workshop-setting-yourself-up-for-success-jason-liu-openai-codex Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---

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