--- title: “The moat is quality over a long period of... description: Discussion about "“The moat is quality over a long period of time." Here's my new episode with @rileybrown, where he showed me how he uses Codex to run his... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-moat-is-quality-over-a-long-period-of-time-here-s-my-new-episode-with-rileybrown-where-he--ebol07cpo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: “The moat is quality over a long period of time." Here's my new episode with @rileybrown, where he showed me how he uses Codex to run his entire content business (1.5M+ followers), including how to: → Create thumbnails, animations, and B-roll → Research and craft winning hooks → Use agents to find content ideas proactively Some quotes from Riley: “I’ll scrape a hundred thumbnails that performed really well and test putting my face on them." (Riley uses @paper to do this) “I’ve never looked at a skill file once. 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Here's my new episode with @rileybrown, where he showed me how he uses Codex to run his entire content business (1.5M+ followers), including how to: → Create thumbnails, animations, and B-roll → Research and craft winning hooks → Use agents to find content ideas proactively Some quotes from Riley: “I’ll scrape a hundred thumbnails that performed really well and test putting my face on them." (Riley uses @paper to do this) “I’ve never looked at a skill file once. If AI does a bad job, I just tell it to update the skill so it doesn’t make the same mistake again.” “I’ll walk around for 10 minutes speaking all my ideas. When I come back, AI has created 80% of the diagrams I’ll use in my videos.” I’ve admired Riley’s AI tutorials for a long time, so it was fascinating to see his process behind the scenes. 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Google AI Studio: Go from prompt to production fast Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # “The moat is quality over a long period of time." Here's my new episode with @rileybrown, where he showed me how he uses Codex to run his entire content business (1.5M+ followers), including how to: → Create thumbnails, animations, and B-roll → Research and craft winning hooks → Use agents to find content ideas proactively Some quotes from Riley: “I’ll scrape a hundred thumbnails that performed really well and test putting my face on them." (Riley uses @paper to do this) “I’ve never looked at a skill file once. If AI does a bad job, I just tell it to update the skill so it doesn’t make the same mistake again.” “I’ll walk around for 10 minutes speaking all my ideas. When I come back, AI has created 80% of the diagrams I’ll use in my videos.” I’ve admired Riley’s AI tutorials for a long time, so it was fascinating to see his process behind the scenes. 📌 Watch now: Thanks to our sponsors: Google AI Studio: Go from prompt to production fast Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video **[Peter Yang](https://daily.dev/sources/petergyang)** · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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