Edouard 

Now we’re gonna be told when we can or can’t reply? Way to clutter the UI! I heard X got a new kick$ss designer. Let’s see what he does with it.

@kiru_io Thanks :))

@edouard_iosdev Congrats! 🥳

Finally shipped this AI Thumbnail Generator in my Thumbnail Maker app. First time I have to account for non-negligible AI model costs for an app. Let's see how it goes. apps.apple.com/us/app/thumbna…

If you can reply to this, good for you, but I don't plan to use this feature

App Review right now...

June 8th to 12th. Be ready.

Hey Codex team! Can we get a sort by latest projects worked on? 'By project' list the projects by creation date. Chronological list orders all threads across projects but that's not very UX friendly. Thanks in advance :) cc @romainhuet @OpenAIDevs

@romainhuet @mecid @OpenAI Wouldn’t have it any other way :)

@edouard_iosdev @mecid @OpenAI We love having you building with Codex!

Lately it feels like @OpenAI has been hiring tons of the people I follow on here. Definitely sticking with Codex!

That silent nod from a dad holding a toddler to another dad holding a toddler in a busy 14-hour flight. A Thousand words of encouragement shared in an instant.

@DonnyWals @levelsio Good to hear.

@edouard_iosdev @levelsio I just carry it with me in the bag that it came in. Never been stopped, never been tested.

how do you guys travel with creatine? kinda worried what people may think seeing white powder in my bag. cc @levelsio any experience to share?

@illyism @SimonHoiberg @SashaMagicSpace Hi from Lausanne! Taking roots here year after year :D

Builders are quietly leaving the EU Met @SimonHoiberg in Zürich 🇨🇭 Switzerland is expensive, but: → Some of the lowest taxes in Europe → No EU bureaucracy → World-class infrastructure → One of the safest, cleanest countries on earth Truly one of the best places!

The lobsters are at the gates

@CodeWithChris Great write up Chris. It takes courage and I think it's fair to say we all share the same feelings to some extend. The AppStore was already saturated, it's only getting worse. Marketing is the differenciator & having an audience is a huge +. Good luck :)

Hey, it's Chris here. I don’t think I’ve posted anything publicly since December. So over 2 months of radio silence. Honestly, I hit a wall. AI got so good at building apps that I couldn’t help but feel like, “why bother?”. Whenever I sat down to work on coding tutorials, I felt like I was spending time on something that people wouldn’t find valuable. Like, why spend months learning Swift when Claude Code can write the whole thing in 10 minutes? That thought kind of broke me for a bit, and instead of posting through the confusion, I just stopped. So I threw myself into something I actually felt energized by: using AI to build iOS apps and figuring out how to turn them into real products. I've been deep in product development mode, working on my Tip Tracker and Daily Parent Affirmations app. Honestly, just trying to figure out the hardest part of the whole app game (which isn't the coding anymore). It's getting users, it's marketing, it's the whole business side that blindsides developers after they launch their app. Here's the thing I kept coming back to: building apps with AI is easy now and anyone can do it, but making a successful app is a completely different skill set. And I actually have experience here, it just didn't look like "app experience" at the time. When I started CodeWithChris from scratch, I had to learn SEO, email marketing, copywriting, how to build an audience, all of it over years. Turns out, that's exactly the game you play with apps too. Same game, different product. So the content is shifting a bit. You'll see more from me on AI coding (there's a better and worse way to do it and I want to share what's actually working for me), and more on the product development side, things like growing an app, getting users, figuring out monetization. (I’m not going to say that this is a permanent transition, but at the moment, it’s what’s interesting and energizing to me.) I'm not an expert in all of it, but I've been in the trenches and I'll share what I'm learning as I go. It feels a lot like the early days of CodeWithChris; Small team, figuring things out in real time, being a bit more personal about it all. I'm looking forward to that!

I wish Apple was this transparent with what they're dealing with too. Everybody knows why the review times are increasing. Recognizing it and sharing that solutions are being worked on is just nice to read. Kudos @atleeclark for the transparency.

@levelsio @theannalux So... I was just about to ship a massive update to an app that would use Nano Banana Pro. Now I guess I need to test Nano Banana 2 if I want to up my margins and/or give nicer quota to users.

@theannalux Cara chatinha

✨ Nano Banana 2 is now live on 📸 Photo AI It's a real breakthrough for image models because it FINALLY has high resemblance, or as Google calls it subject consistency Which in my case means photos will actually look like you or your model trained, not "somewhat" like you, no really you, which is the entire point of Photo AI from the start Also they made Nano Banana 2 about ~2x cheaper vs Nano Banana Pro, which helps! I was spending $40,000/mo (like 40% of revenue now) on it so I will save ~$20,000/mo now, which I think I need to to get better profit margins (I like to stay at about 80-90% profit)

@hyhieu226 @OpenAI @xai I do not know you but reading the comments and seeing such negative is tough. Ignore it. And thanks for your contributions. Acknowledging it and being open about it is probably a very good first step towards getting better. All the best back home with your family :)

I have made the difficult decision to leave @OpenAI. Working here and at @xai before was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I have met the best people. Not the best people in AI. Not the best people in tech. Simply the best people. At these companies, I have helped creating extremely intelligent entities that will meaningfully improve our lives. The work makes me proud. But the intensive work came with a price. I cannot believe I would say this one day, but I am burnt out. All the mental health deteriorating that I used to scoff at is real, miserable, scary, and dangerous. I am going to take a break from frontier AI labs, and will take my family to my home country Vietnam. There, I will try something new, and also search for a cure for my conditions. I hope I will heal. Until then.

@OpenAIDevs can we also get this in Codex? :D

Being able to focus & stay on track with a plan we made is becoming more and more crucial. The amount of time I want to do file>new project, knowing very well that I will never ship it, is really worrying. Making new apps just for myself is too tempting now. It's addictive.