I’m putting together a dev environment in a VM with ChatGPT and Codex. As part of that work, I’m using Codex to develop a small set of skills for use throughout the environment.
The goal is to make improving the environment part of working in it. Time spent refining how it approaches a task should carry forward into better results on future work.
Full development automation requires production context to become part of the agent’s working context. An agent needs to understand what happens after it deploys to decide what to change next. That changes what the development loop has to include.
I’ve started using VMs to contain Codex.
One useful side effect is that my development environment is moving wholesale into the VM. Tart has been particularly impressive.
I’m rebuilding my personal site as a small, text-first microblog.
It’s deliberately simple: a chronological feed, permanent links, and an archive I own.