Field Notes
A weekly dispatch from the edges of the knowledge graph.
Week of
May 25–May 31, 2026
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Five things worth knowing
> UPDATE: Came up with an even better version of this prompt after the feedback > > Ask Codex to look across your sessions, Memories, and Chronicle, identify patterns, reuse what already exists, and only create the smallest useful skill, subagent, or automation.
> If you ever get tired of managing your Codex threads, just let Codex manage itself! Codex can now create threads, search them, organize them, pin the important ones, and spin up worktrees for parallel tasks. https://t.co/fO6OVu0ZcE - Codex now provides autonomous thread management capabilities, el
> 🧵 4/6 > > The Navy needed the speed and firepower of the Corsair regardless. They turned the aircraft over to the United States Marine Corps for land based use.
> Drop what you're doing. It happened. > > Opus 4.8 is out and it smashes every benchmark
> You can now transcribe meetings in real time using Codex and ask Codex questions about meetings as they're happening! > > I updated my new Codex Meeting Recorder skill to use GPT Realtime Whisper. Tell Codex to use the skill, and it will start transcription and show it in the preview pane. You ca