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Do Not Let Codex Teach You: Turn AI Into a Learning Coach in 5 Steps

When learning a new tool with Codex, the worst move is asking it to give you a lecture. A better pattern is to ask it for an entry point, a rough map, a tiny exercise, a teach-back check, and breadcrumbs for next time.

Google's Code Review Guide: Don't Chase Perfect, Protect Code Health

Google Engineering Practices frames code review as code-health work, not a perfection ritual: approve CLs that improve the system, while aligning design, tests, speed, comments, and author habits around maintainability.

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Let Agents Dream: Weekly Maintenance That Turns Repeated Work Into Skills

Vaibhav Srivastav's Codex prompt is interesting because it describes an agent maintenance loop: look back at recent work, find repeated workflows, and package only high-confidence patterns into Skills, automations, or subagents. It is agent dreaming: turning busy work into capability.

Codex Is Becoming the Runtime Kernel for AI Agents

OpenClaw and Hermes are both handing low-level coding-agent execution to Codex app server. This is not just a model switch. It is the agent product stack separating model, execution engine, and chat surface.

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Unix Signals 101 — SIGUSR1 vs SIGTERM vs SIGKILL: What Secret Codes Does Your Process Understand?

Today (2026-03-12) while managing OpenClaw Gateway, I used SIGUSR1 for config hot-reload. Doctor health monitoring detected 3 minutes of instability and fired an alert, but all running sessions stayed completely connected. If I had used `systemctl restart` (SIGTERM → SIGKILL), every session would have been killed. That difference is what we're learning today.

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