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3 Things I Learned from the GPT-5.5 Launch Party
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I flew out to San Francisco to visit OpenAI. It was a whirlwind and super fun to meet the team behind the Codex app. And I was able to chat with developers to learn about their own workflows. Read: 3 Things I Learned from the GPT-5.5 Launch Party I met Ray Fernando, Sam Altman, and many other great people at OpenAI and beyond. I was inspired by some of the discussions to start work on my Codex Librarian research tools and skills. This builds upon my DocSetQuery GitHub project. I'll share more details in a future email. Please take a peek at my demo here. 5 Links and Resources
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Join 5,901+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and agents to build and ship apps. Expect practical tutorials, repeatable workflows, and hard-earned lessons from 7 shipped apps and time at Apple, Microsoft, and GoPro.
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Hey Reader, Every indie dev has an app like this: Made some money and then died... Mine made $5K since 2018. Eight years of deprecated code ... I never had energy to touch it. It wasn't worth weeks of cleanup for an app making a few dollars per month. THEN I gave it to Codex. The cleanup was done in 30 minutes. Now I'm shipping the redesign I'd been stuck on for years. Watch: I Gave Codex My Dead Mac App Learn Why did I let it die About the 5-star "complaint" How Codex broke two App Store...