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Hey, welcome to issue 6 of the Coefficiencies newsletter! I finally took the Apple Watch Ultra 3 out for a phone-free workout, and a burst of vibe coding produced a fresh Obsidian sync and AI job runner. We capped the week by loading the bikes onto the GO Train and spending Saturday tracing Hamilton’s trails, with plenty of Old Man’s War universe lore from The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi riding shotgun in my head.

As I mentioned before, I’ve been experimenting with “vibe coding.” Instead of writing code myself, I’ve been using the “vibe coding” tool Codex to do a couple of things with my Obsidian vault: An agentic vault organizer that sorts any new file in my inbox into the appropriate subfolder, adding tags and wiki links to other files as needed. A weekly email newsletter generator that scans my vault (including draft posts and recently saved bookmarks) to create my weekly newsletter. I tried this last week as an experiment and may try again. This worked well enough by syncing my vault files to my Raspberry Pi 5, SSHing into it, and running Codex there with prompts that let it process the vault files according to my instructions. The only problem: I had to babysit it with an open terminal session. That didn’t work when I wanted to kick the process off from my phone or walk away and let my laptop sleep (closing the terminal session stops Codex by default)

Hey, welcome to issue 5 of the Coefficiencies newsletter! I spent the week coming down from a Vegas conference high, tightening up some of my automations, and generally trying to keep the post-conference energy focused on things that will actually ship. What I’ve Been Up To #Most of the week centred on the Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, where every morning in the Fontainebleau’s Royal Ballroom kicked off with Gene Kim before diving into talks like “Scaling AI Adoption Across 3000+ Developers at Booking.com,” “State of AI-assisted Software Development 2025 (DORA Report),” and “Making AI Agents Actually Work for You.” It was a wall-to-wall reminder that AI isn’t just hype—it’s now the baseline expectation for modern engineering teams.

I’ve never been good at keeping my files neatly organized. My Obsidian _Inbox/ fills up, my root directory gets cluttered, and the good intentions of “I’ll sort it later” rarely turn into action. So I finally asked: why not get a computer to do it automatically for me? That’s where Codex came in. Wait, What’s Codex? #Codex is primarily designed as a coding assistant—think of it as an AI that can help generate code, suggest fixes, and automate developer workflows. But it’s not just an API in the cloud. The Codex CLI is a command-line tool that runs directly on your computer. You can feed it a prompt and it acts like an agent: executing multi-step jobs locally, moving files, editing content, even committing to git.

I’ve just finished Day 2 of the Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit in Las Vegas. I initially wanted to attend to get some ideas to bring back to one of my teams at work to help improve their development workflow. The conference is organized by Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook, so I expected lots of tips about DevOps best practices. It turns out DevOps is basically just table stakes at this point. Not surprising, but the majority of the conference was focused on AI.

One more test to see that new posts are getting picked up by my Active Pieces workflow automatically.