Jeffrey Emanuel's "say no to process" agent skill kills Codex ceremony output — used hundreds of times a day
doodlestein · x · 2026-10-08
Jeffrey Emanuel shares his custom agent skill: a "just say no to process/ceremony" instruction for Codex/Sol-style coding agents, targeting the verbose planning-and-ritual output he calls "Silicon Valley fake-work compressed into a model." He uses it hundreds of times per day, and others report it fully solved the problem for them.
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