Behind the Craft · Sunday, July 26, 2026
Jason Liu explains his approach to selecting AI models and effort levels within Codex, often defaulting to 'Sol medium' for tasks like organizing life, reading Slack, and scheduling meetings. He reserves higher effort levels for more complex tasks like building prototype applications.
“For the most part, I I mostly just use Sol medium, right?”
“A lot of the work that I do these days has been just organizing my life at work, reading slack, you know, setting my calendar, scheduling all these meetings.”
“These are all things that don't need the highest intelligence, right?”
“So most of my work generally is in medium. And then when it comes to actually building out potential prototype applications, so for example, I'm trying to learn the drums, I I've been working on a small little app that just teaches me how to play the drums. There I'll set things on extra high or ultra.”