Codex Wants Your Whole Workflow

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (0:00)
Aloha, everyone, and welcome to another exciting episode. We've got news from around the AI world. We're going to talk about some AI and science. And today, we've got Kyle Shannon here talking about the great repurposing. So today, joining me is Andy, Brian, Kyle, and I'm Jyunmi. And hopefully, we'll get a couple more people in a little later.
Today is episode 738, and it is June 3rd, 2026 And this is The Daily AI Show. Okay. Good morning, everybody. I hope everyone's having a wonderful week. It's Wednesday, so that means it's hump day. It's the middle of the week. We just get over this. It's just all downhill so we can coast into the weekend. But until then, I want to know what's going on with everybody. Like, did anybody do anything fun this week, this weekend?
What do they got going on, Andy?

**Brian Maucere** (1:02)
It's a short- oh, sorry. Go ahead, Andy.

**Andy Halliday** (1:04)
Oh, Brian, I did nothing fun, so go ahead, please.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (1:09)
There we go. That's an easy one.

**Brian Maucere** (1:11)
Like a lot of people around the states right now, I'm in this, you know, made crazy with people graduating. Just so happens that two nephews graduating this year from high school. So between that, between a memorial for a family member and coming off the trip, it's been kind of nonstop. So I've had some shorter weeks. So yeah, once again, this week has been pushing and getting like the newsletter done earlier than it normally would, getting the conundrum done earlier than it normally would, and just front-loading a week. And this is the second week in the row of doing that, plus all the stuff going on with work. So it has been busy to say the least, but it settles down after this upcoming weekend. So I'll enjoy it. And then we'll get back to the regular scheduled programs.

**Kyle Shannon** (2:00)
Right.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (2:00)
Right. Yeah.
Kyle, what about you? What's your weekend and week been like?

**Kyle Shannon** (2:05)
My weekend was fascinating. So I had a weekend of starts where I was like, oh, I got to do this, I got to do that. And I just didn't, didn't, didn't. And basically by the end of Sunday night, I had a nervous system meltdown where it was just like, it just became clear that everything I was doing was stressing me out to the point where I'm like, I've got to just like, oh, just calm, just slow it all down. And one of the things we did inside the AI Salon, we created this thing called the AI Salon Mastermind Practice, which is a daily practice around how you use AI. And to a person, people have been slowing down, doing a lot more stuff in analog, a lot less of the hyper AI stuff. And so I think my nervous system this weekend was basically like, all right, dude, you've been doing the practice lab for a while, it's your turn now.
So I think I'm in the middle of trying to evaluate where I really want to put my time. And I actually think it's an important place to be because AI is so frenetic all the time.

**Brian Maucere** (3:06)
I'll tell you, Kyle had a similar... Well, I didn't mean to have a...
What I was going to say is I didn't mean to have a moment of Zen, but what happened was the quick answer is my daughter is 15 now, but when she was 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Lego, like a lot of folks for a lot of kids was really, really important to her. And so she had all these Lego friends, which is more geared towards the girls, regardless, not to say there's gender issues with it, but that's what it is, right? And so she had a lot of sets that she got for Christmases and stuff like that. Well, two years ago, we started the process of actually dividing out the sets and stuff like that. Well, she's looking to make a little money this year. There's a local re-brick, whatever they're called stores. I don't know them well, but I've gone down and seen it's cool. And so she has the ability to resell this. I say all that is a very quick intro to say what I had forgotten because I hadn't done it in so long was how Zen-like and how good it can feel to just sit down and build like those sets. In order to sell them at this resell store, they have to be fully built, right? And then the owner, the new owner breaks them down, whatever, which totally makes sense. You want to make sure the pieces and minifigs are there and animals and such and such. So I've been trying to help her speed this up a bit. And so over the weekend or whenever it was, I sat down and started building and I was sitting at the table and my wife's like, Ryle, you're really like an hour or two here. I was like, I gotta tell you, it was the best I felt in a long time.