---
title: "Setting Yourself Up for Success — Part 1"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "2:50pm-3:10pm"
track: "Workshops Day 2"
room: "Track 4"
speakers: ["Jason Liu"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Workshops Day 2"
scheduleRoom: "Track 4"
scheduleLabels: ["Workshops Day 2", "Track 4", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Setting Yourself Up for Success — Part 1

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 2:50pm-3:10pm
- Track/room: Workshops Day 2 · Track 4
- Speaker(s): Jason Liu
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: Workshops Day 2
- Room: Track 4
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
I will walk you through the process of understanding how Codex works as a general tool to control your computer (setting up your memory vault/ assistant threads, prompting it to talk to other threads, and exploring computer use), how to think about things like long running work streams, and preparing yourself to start thinking in loops.

## Media Evidence
[How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jryZvCuA0Uc) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-dense-slides|Dense Slides: How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)]] — 1 visible slide image(s); 1 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/dense-slides/jryZvCuA0Uc/slide-002.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-slides|Slides: How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)]], [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc`: read, full, report.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
- `youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc` — 1 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc`: read, full, report.
- Evidence links for `youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc`: [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc]], [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-slides]], [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-dense-slides]], [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[jason-liu]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-dense-slides]] (2 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-dense-slides]]
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-reconstructed-slides]]
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-slides]]
- Slide-derived terms: `awws`, `orci`, `aviace`, `fotatetey`, `mdaily`, `augment`, `code`, `workos`, `eeeeeeessssssssssseseeeaassss`, `look`, `jeff`, `huber`, `jason`, `oaths`, `read`, `full`, `report`, `research`

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Setting Yourself Up for Success — Part 1 ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 2:50pm-3:10pm - Track/room: Workshops Day 2 · Track 4 - Speaker(s): Jason Liu - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Workshops Day 2 - Room: Track 4 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description I will walk you through the process of understanding how Codex works as a general tool to control your computer (setting up your memory vault/ assistant threads, prompting it to talk to other threads, and exploring computer use), how to think about things like long running work streams, and preparing yourself to start thinking in loops. ## Media Evidence [How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jryZvCuA0Uc) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: `youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc` - Slide deck: [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-dense-slides|Dense Slides: How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)]] — 1 visible slide image(s); 1 HTML recreation(s). ![[assets/dense-slides/jryZvCuA0Uc/slide-002.jpg]] - Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-slides|Slides: How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)]], [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: How to look at your data — Jeff Huber (Chroma) + Jason Liu (567)]] - Slide-derived themes for `youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc`: read, full, report.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[jason-liu|Jason Liu]] — Developer Experience, OpenAI at [[openai|OpenAI]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[agentic-search]]
- [[coding-agents]]

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-jryZvCuA0Uc-dense-slides]] — slide evidence.

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.