Codex PR Review: Automatic Reviews, Triggers, Review Rules

How to turn on Codex code review for a GitHub repo: automatic reviews, @codex trigger commands, and pinning review standards into AGENTS.md.

2026-08-21 · John Lee

Agent Memory, Part 3: Perfection Is a Unicorn

Clearing the wreckage sent me back to the first question: why does memory exist at all? An apple drawing, moments and principles, rules that changed nothing.

2026-08-14 · John Lee

Agent Memory, Part 2: What I Built Broke

Monet began as shared memory. Then the state hypothesis from a thread with Ken, a new Monet built in two weeks, and the day nothing worked at the office.

2026-08-13 · John Lee

Agent Memory, Part 1: It Started at the TV

Nine months on agent memory and almost nothing else, in three parts. Part 1: falling into vibe coding, building memory twice, and the night I decided to dig in.

2026-08-12 · John Lee

209 AI Code Reviews: Accurate Is Not Necessary

One security PR passed through 209 review conversations on its way to merge. Ninety percent were accurate. Where the human’s job goes when accuracy is free.

2026-08-11 · John Lee

Removing AI Tells: One Flag, a Lasting Rule

Instead of hand-fixing an AI draft every time, I built a correction loop where one flag becomes a permanent rule. The skill structure, and a seed file.

2026-08-05 · John Lee

Karpathy's LOTR Demo: Context Plus Autonomy

One paragraph of Tolkien, a million tokens, two hours of autonomous execution, a 3D film. Not a demo review, but what changes about the unit of delegation.

2026-08-04 · John Lee

Coding Agent Memory: Storing Everything Fails

I build an agent memory platform, and this week we reversed its direction. What store-everything memory breaks, and where state, facts, and principles belong.

2026-08-03 · John Lee

Keep Your CLAUDE.md Light: Fewer Rules Win

A CLAUDE.md does not get better as it grows. Why piling up rules degrades your agent, what belongs in the file, and where the rest should live.

2026-08-02 · John Lee

How to Make an AI Coding Agent Actually Yours

I built Monet to fix the agent that forgets yesterday’s conventions. How an agent that writes its own memory and reads back what mattered actually works.

2026-06-23 · John Lee