Behind the Craft · Sunday, July 26, 2026
Jason Liu explains his workflow within Codex, where most tasks are managed as long-running pinned threads due to Codex's effective context compaction. This allows the AI to retain previous information without losing context over extended periods.
“But you'll see that almost everything is kind of just a pinned thread, right?”
“Every pin thread is a workspace and it with compaction, um, all that's just kind of managed for me.”
“Yeah, and everything else I just write down, right?”