Lenny’s Podcast117 min
The power user’s guide to Codex: parallelizing workflows, planning techniques, advanced context engineering tips, automating code reviews, and more
Alexander Embiricos · Jan 12, 2026
Key learnings
- Ship a product to a small group first, then learn empirically from usage rather than over-planning, especially in fast-moving AI…
- Onboard users into agentic tools by first working alongside them in the local IDE or terminal, then gradually configure…
- Give AI coding tools your hardest real tasks rather than trivial ones, and build trust by having the agent first understand the…