Thomas Ricouard

@dimillian
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🍎 SwiftUI engineer
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👨‍💻 Staff iOS engineer @medium
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🫡 Previously @glose 📖 @google 🔍 & various other
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Thomas RicouardFeb 6

What's the point anymore? Codex literally reviewed 500+ open issues, grouped them, and sorted them for me in less than 3 minutes. Everything became easy. It's just a matter of will, drive, and ideas.

The only bottleneck is me having to manage all that

Thomas RicouardFeb 5
Adjusted my setup a bit today
Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3

I also make it really easy to just compact chained tool calls, and I'll add an option to make it even closer to the Codex app, meaning auto-compacted tool calls.

But one of the best "UX" thing is capturing the latest reasoning title as the "thinking" indicator.
The Codex CLI did that, so I copied it.

Thomas RicouardFeb 3
There is a debate right now between what I do in Codex Monitor and what the Codex app does. I think it's better to show almost every agent trace with a clear view of what is happening. It allows a careful user to see what's really happening and steer.
Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3
And it also has all the features you expect from this kind of new, agentic-driven environment. A sidebar with the git diff changes, a terminal, a way to quickly add and sort workspaces, easy access to all Codex /commands, plan and code mode, etc... And multiple run commands!
Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3

About worktree: the Codex app has a very cool feature. Once you have changes on a worktree, you can sync the change to your local repo, it'll create a branch for you and keep it in sync between your worktree and repo.

This is amazing and makes Worktree much better to work with!

Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3
Another feature they have is automation! You can create an agent cron job that runs on a specific day at a specific time. In my case, I have a daily review of my open PR and issues, but what you can do is pretty limitless!
Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3
Another awesome feature is that you can easily start new agents locally, in a worktree, or as a cloud agent. To me, that's a super powerful feature! Your worktree and cloud agents are combined in the sidebar. And you can easily apply cloud/worktree changes on your local repo.
Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3

You can also manage and edit your skills and install new ones from an ever-growing marketplace of skills! Also within the new Codex app!

Can't wait to see where this will go. Skills have been a bit messy, with a ton of libraries and repos all over the place.

Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3

You can see all your agents' threads per workspace in the sidebar and quickly switch between them.

It has most of what I ever wanted from those new kinds of agentic/orchestrator IDEs.

And no, no code editor, we all agree on that!