Snapshot · God Mode Podcast
Rik revealed he uses Claude to analyze the full podcast transcript and generate agent instructions, then hands that to Codex which autonomously clips the episode in Riverside, eliminating the most time-consuming manual step.
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At 15:34 · chapter starts 15:18
The conversation turns personal and practical: Rik walks through the exact pipeline he built to automate God Mode Podcast clip creation. Claude reads the full transcript and writes an instruction document for an agent. That document goes to Codex, which then literally navigates Riverside — clicking, creating clips, waiting — without Rik touching it. All he does is review and approve the final output. What used to take the most time in the whole production workflow is now fully delegated. [1] — Rik "Hermes now runs agents entirely in the cloud — pick a model, choose server size, and your agent is live in 60 seconds. Teams can spin up ag…" 43:40 He heard a similar story on Lenny's podcast, where the show's video editor started using Codex to find word gaps in the audio — a use case nobody on the Codex team anticipated. The lesson: the best agentic workflows are discovered by doing, not planned.
Claude reads the full podcast transcript and writes an agent instruction doc. Codex takes that doc and literally clicks around inside Riverside to create the clips. What used to be the most time-consuming manual step is now fully automated.
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