Hey builders! 🚀 Quick question for anyone currently architecting or messing around with an AI OS setup. I’m weighing my options for the core engine and looking closely at OpenAI Codex. Before I commit fully to it, I wanted to pick the brains of this group: 1. Is Codex a solid foundation for an AI OS? How well does it handle the background automation, system-level task execution, and sandbox management compared to other models out there right now? 2. What’s your actual build experience? If you’ve built or prototyped an AI OS using Codex, what did the reality look like? Any major roadblocks with context windows, agentic drift, or state management? 3. How generous is the usage on the high-tier plans? Specifically, if I'm looking at the $200 Pro subscription with 20x usage limits, does it actually hold up under heavy, multi-step agentic loops, or do you still find yourself hitting a wall during intense dev sessions? 4. Would love to hear your raw feedback, architecture tips, or if you ended up switching to a pay-as-you-go API model (like Claude Code) for better reasoning and fewer caps. Also, a huge shoutout and thanks to Nate for putting this community together. The insights dropping in here lately have been gold. Drop your thoughts below! 👇

Every single person following AI right now is overwhelmed. Including me. I make videos about this stuff for a living and I still feel the pressure. New model drops. New framework. New feature update. It feels like every single day. But after hearing a ton of you guys bring up "AI overwhelm" week after week, I realized this: → There's a HUGE difference between knowing the "what" and knowing the "how." Staying aware does not mean testing everything. Most new tools and features only need the "what." You see the title. You understand what it does. You move on. The "how" is reserved for the stuff that solves a problem you actually have right now. So when something new drops, I ask myself one question: Does this solve a specific pain point I'm currently dealing with? If yes, I test it in a real scenario. I test it against something that actually matters to me. If no, I save the link. I mentally file it away. And I keep walking. Because here's the thing. Your north star is probably very different from mine. Part of my job is to experiment, form opinions, and share what I think is useful. So naturally I test a lot of stuff. But if your north star is building a business or getting better at your craft, then every shiny new tool might just be a distraction. The number one mistake I see people make is they try to learn everything. They watch every video. They test every tool. They jump to the next thing before the last thing even had a chance to work. And if I've contributed to your overwhelm with my daily uploads, I apologize. hehe. But a lot of people think that this ties directly into how you measure your day. Productivity is not how many hours you worked. It's how many meaningful outputs you created that actually moved the needle towards your north star. Someone can work 12 hours one day and feel insanely productive, but they were just watching tutorials and playing around with new tools. Meanwhile someone else sits down for 5 hours, ships the one thing that actually matters, and makes more progress.

Is anyone using a Jetson Orin Nano Super for a local LLM in ollama connected to their AIos running in VScode?

It seems obvious that my frame of mind related to my efforts to pursue a path an AI automation consultant was totally backwards. I've always had a strong, technical aptitude and I take a great deal of satisfaction from mastering highly technical processes. Therefore, this has been my focus. Lately, as I've been exploring this platform (Nate's skool) I've realized that being a independent contractor/consultant is much more about marketing and sales than of technical ability. The thing I'm realizing is that my thinking was backwards, and actually a huge problem if I intend to be successful in this venture. Am I correct? Is my thinking on this accurate? Thanks for your feedback.

I got a welcome email from Nate that has a link to the templates but I go there and there are only videos. Am I missing something?