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All blog posts, tools, and guides about Automation from Developers Digest.
31 resources - 26 posts, 3 tools, 2 guides
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Codex Computer History Turns Repeated Work Into Reusable Skills
Codex Computer History gives agents a rolling view of work across apps. Here is how it works, where it helps, and the privacy boundaries developers should understand.
8 min read
Grok Bot's Core Primitive: Every Bot Gets a Computer
Every Grok Bot works on a persistent cloud computer with browser and terminal access, and that single primitive explains everything else about the product. Here is why own-computer beats chat drafts, API integrations, and session-scoped agents.
7 min read
Grok Bot's Meta Controls: Oversight as a Product Primitive
Grok Bot ships controls over agents rather than controls by agents: approval gates, a chief-of-staff structure, and escalation learning stand in for a settings page. Here is how that oversight model works, and the control questions xAI has not answered publicly.
7 min read
Grok Bot Routines: Automations Without Automation-Building
Grok Bot's routines flip the automation playbook: do the job once while a Bot follows along, correct it in plain language, then let the Bot own the schedule. Here is how the mechanic works, where it fits, and how approval gates keep it safe.
7 min read
Automate Video Editing with the Descript API: Raw Recording to Published Cut in One Script
The boring 80 percent of video editing is mechanical: cut the filler, clean the audio, add captions, export. The Descript API turns each of those into a scripted job, so a raw recording becomes a published, captioned cut without opening the editor once.
11 min read
Make Your Coding Agent Talk: Audio Briefs from Agent Runs with ElevenLabs
The agent finishes, the summary scrolls past, and you will read it later. Build the fix: a coding agent that ends every run with a plain-language summary, piped into ElevenLabs text-to-speech and out as an MP3 you can listen to on the way to work. The complete one-hour build.
9 min read
Put an AI Agent Behind a Webhook: Turn GitHub Issues into Pull Requests
The most common trigger for an AI coding agent is not a clock, it is an event. A GitHub webhook, a Railway service, and OpenCode headless add up to a repo where a labeled issue gets a real pull request without anyone at the keyboard. The full build, start to finish.
10 min read
Self-Improving Applications Are Now Cheaper Than Hiring: The Claude Code and Codex Closed Loop
Self-improving applications shift the economics of maintenance. Instead of per-token pricing, you pay per closed issue - and the closed loop (user feedback to GitHub issue to Codex scheduled task to reviewed PR) means the cost is predictable, the fixes are testable, and the human is in the merge decision, not the implementation.
12 min read
Auto-Narrated Changelog Videos: Build the Pipeline in Under an Hour
Release notes nobody reads are a content problem with a mechanical fix: have a coding agent write the narration script from real git history, record the demo with Screen Studio, and let Descript narrate and edit it. A complete one-hour build.
8 min read
Put an AI Agent on a Cron Job: Automating Dev Chores with OpenCode
An agent CLI plus a cron schedule turns recurring dev chores into background work: dependency bumps, doc freshness checks, morning briefs. The pattern, the guardrails, and where to run it - your own hardware or a cloud host.
11 min read
Setting Up a Spare Mac for Claude Code: The Full Remote Control Guide
A step-by-step guide to configuring an isolated Mac that Claude Code can fully control remotely - from SSH and Dispatch to phone-based control with Remote Control.
7 min read
Loop Engineering: How to Design Agent Loops That Actually Converge
The architecture side of loop engineering: plan/act/verify cycles, convergence criteria, retry policies, budget-bounded loops, and the loop-until-dry pattern. Concrete TypeScript-shaped patterns for building agent loops that stop when they should.
11 min read
GLM 5.2 Matches Human Bookkeeper Accuracy on UK VAT Returns - With Some Caveats
A new benchmark shows GLM 5.2 processing 59 transactions and producing VAT returns off by only 7 pence - at $2.73 versus typical accounting fees of $1,000+. Here is what the benchmark actually tested, where the model failed, and why the HN discussion focused on liability.
7 min read
Codex Record & Replay: Turn Screen Recordings Into Reusable Automation Skills
A companion guide to the Codex Record & Replay video: OpenAI Codex can now record a recurring computer task and replay it as a reusable automation skill. Here is what the feature is and where it fits.
6 min read
Loop Engineering in 9 Minutes: Stop Prompting, Start Building Loops
A companion guide to the Loop Engineering video: the shift from repeatedly prompting an LLM to building long-running loops, goals, and automations. Here is the core idea and where to go deeper.
6 min read
Codex-Maxxing: How to Run Long-Running Codex Workflows Without Losing the Plot
Codex-Maxxing should mean bounded autonomy: AGENTS.md, small worktrees, explicit stop conditions, subagents only when work is separable, and review checkpoints that keep humans in control.
8 min read
The Definitive Guide to Loop Engineering in Claude Code and Codex
Goal, loop, routine. Three verbs, two tools, one hard part. A complete field guide to running agentic loops in Claude Code and Codex, the real commands, the patterns people actually run, and the two failure modes that burn money.
16 min read
Claude Code Routines vs Managed Agents Schedules: Where Recurring Agent Work Should Live
Claude Code Routines and Managed Agents scheduled deployments both run Claude on a schedule - here is how the triggers, pricing, and limits differ, and which one fits your recurring agent work.
9 min read
Codex Exec in CI: The Practical Guide to Headless OpenAI Agents
codex exec is OpenAI's non-interactive mode for running Codex agents from scripts, CI pipelines, and GitHub Actions - here is how to set it up safely with real flags and working YAML.
9 min read
Codex Automations: Where Scheduled AI Agents Actually Help
Codex automations are useful when recurring engineering work has clear inputs, reviewable outputs, and safe boundaries. Here is the practical playbook.
9 min read
Codex Is Becoming a General-Purpose AI Agent, Not Just a Coding Tool
OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding assistant into a broader agent workspace for files, apps, browser QA, images, automations, and repeatable knowledge work.
8 min read
Codex Loops: What Boris Cherny Gets Right About Managing Agent Work
Boris Cherny's loop-heavy Claude Code workflow points at the next Codex content lane: recurring agents that babysit PRs, CI, deploys, and feedback streams.
8 min read
Claude Code Hooks Explained
Hooks give you deterministic control over Claude Code. Auto-format on save, block dangerous commands, run tests before commits, fire desktop notifications. Here's how to set them up.
12 min read
Claude Code Loops: Recurring Prompts That Actually Run
Claude Code now has a native Loop feature for scheduling recurring prompts - from one-minute intervals to three-day windows. Fix builds on repeat, summarize Slack channels, email yourself Hacker News digests. All from the CLI.
6 min read
Claude Code: Remote Control, Auto Memory, Plugins & More
Anthropic dropped a batch of updates across Claude Code and Cowork - remote control from your phone, scheduled tasks, plugin repos, auto memory, and stats showing 4% of GitHub public commits now come from Claude Code.
5 min read
The Ralph Loop: Running Claude Code For Hours Autonomously
Claude Opus 4.5 ran autonomously for 4 hours 49 minutes using stop hooks and the Ralph Loop pattern. Walk away, come back to completed work. Here's how it works.
10 min read
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