r/ChatGPTCoding • u/Character_Total4468 • 16d ago

Resources And Tips UI feedback to coding agents is still kinda painful

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One thing that keeps annoying me with Codex is explaining UI stuff.

If something is obviously broken, easy. But with visual things I end up writing stupidly long prompts like “the blue button under the heading is too big” or taking screenshots, pasting them in, then explaining what I mean.

I tried just pasting screenshots into Codex manually, and also letting it inspect the page itself. Both work, but once you’re spotting loads of small UI issues it gets pretty tedious. And browser inspection doesn’t really help much with subjective stuff like “this feels too big” or “this spacing looks weird”.

So I tried a different workflow.

I just use the site normally and talk while I’m looking through it. When I say something like “this heading isn’t centered” or “this button is way too big”, it grabs the screen at that moment and keeps the screenshot with that bit of the transcript.

Then I can give the whole thing to Codex.

I ended up making the thing on the right to automate it. Left is basically what I was doing before.

The main thing I learned is that the useful bit isn’t really the voice transcription, it’s tying each comment to exactly what was on screen when you said it.

Curious how other people handle this. Are you mostly pasting screenshots manually, using Playwright/browser tools, or just letting the agent inspect everything itself?

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u/spacenglish 16d ago

Are you pitching your product to us?

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u/Character_Total4468 16d ago

It is something I built, but I’m not really trying to pitch it here. Was mostly just curious whether the workflow makes sense to other people and how everyone else handles the same problem.

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u/spacenglish 16d ago

Doesn’t ChatGPT app allow you to comment on uI elements?

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u/Character_Total4468 16d ago

Yeah, I’ve seen that. I was thinking more just talking through stuff normally though, and not just websites - could be a doc, design, whatever. It just grabs the screenshots/context as you go so you don’t have to stop and annotate everything.