Episode 41 starts with a very Breakeven Brothers moment: the guys forget what episode they’re on, recap Brad’s family visit, and relive a 150-plus-game Soulcalibur gauntlet before diving into the real headline—why Brad now lives inside the Codex app. He explains what changed with GPT-5.5, why the model feels dramatically better at unblocking itself, and how that has shifted his workflow from small, careful requests to bigger, longer-running tasks. If you’ve been wondering whether Codex is just another AI coding surface or something materially different, this conversation gives a grounded answer from someone using it all day.

From there, the episode gets practical fast. Brad walks through plugins, computer use, Git worktrees, the built-in review pane, automations, long chat compaction, and why plan mode has mostly disappeared from his workflow, while Ben stress-tests the ideas from an accounting and knowledge-work angle with Canva brochures, CRM data, email tooling, and plenty of honest beginner questions. They also compare Codex to Claude Code and Claude Co-Work, share Brad’s current default of GPT-5.5 on extra high reasoning, and close with two strong bookmarks: Greg Eisenberg and Riley Brown’s Codex masterclass, plus Evan Bacon’s serve-sim tool for showing an iOS simulator inside Codex’s right-hand pane.

Chapters:
00:00 Weekend Recap and Soulcalibur
01:24 GPT-5.5 Powers Up Codex
05:16 Terminal Habits vs App Workflow
08:46 Plugins, MCPs, and Computer Use
11:22 Worktrees and Review Pane
15:05 Life After Plan Mode
20:37 Best Settings for Codex
25:48 Accounting Workflows and Plugins
30:14 Bookmarks and Closing Thoughts

Links:
- Codex app
- Canva MCP
- Startup Ideas Podcast — “How to Use Codex: The Codex Masterclass”
- Augmented Accounting
- serve-sim

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