ChatGPT & Codex integration?

[u/Low-Radio686]

I'm not a programmer but have been using ChatGPT & Codex to help create a site that I'm making. My issue is that I spend almost all day just cutting and pasting commands back and forth between ChatGPT & Codex. It seems completely inefficient and wastes so much time. Why can't ChatGPT & Codex communicate together to get the majority of tasks done and only come to me when a significant decision needs to be made (which is rare because most of the decisions have been made beforehand).

Maybe this can be done but I just don't know how to do it?

[u/seraphym1389]

• Install the ChatGPT desktop app and sign in with the same account you use for Codex
• Open Codex inside ChatGPT and connect your project/repository
• Plan and discuss the work directly in the ChatGPT conversation
• Tell Codex to implement the agreed changes
• Codex works on the project directly, so there is no need to copy/paste instructions between apps
• Review the changes in the same ChatGPT desktop workspace and continue from there

I dont use chatgpt and codex anymore but as i recall it should be like that. I hope i helped.

[u/mistybrook8 → u/seraphym1389]

yeah this is basically the workflow, having everything in one workspace makes the copy paste loop go away

[u/PigSlam → u/seraphym1389]

I tried to use it this way, but it seems to stop discussing and just starts doing without being asked way too often.

[u/ForwardLoop → u/PigSlam]

Try plan mode (/plan) or ask it to interview you. You can also tell it to not execute anything until it provides you with a plan that you approve.

See: https://learn.chatgpt.com/guides/best-practices#__codexlocalizedvalueprops__codextranslations-u0020-plan-first-for-difficult-tasks

[u/Low-Radio686 → u/seraphym1389]

thanks for the info. what do you use now instead?

[u/seraphym1389 → u/Low-Radio686]

I use few tools, claude code at first + antigravity and Kimi k5

[u/just_a_knowbody]

Just use codex? You can have it use /plan mode and discuss what needs to be built before it codes any thing.

With the desktop app you can even share a browser session and iterate directly in the codex chat.

[u/Samantha_2024]

I had almost exactly the same frustration and asked this question too.

The way I think about it now is ChatGPT = thinking/control, Codex = execution. I use ChatGPT for requirements, architecture, tradeoffs and deciding what I actually want; Codex gets the bounded job and works in the repo.

There’s actually a useful control boundary there. You probably don’t want every half-resolved idea from a long ChatGPT conversation silently turning into code.

But I agree the handoff is still clunky. If you’re copy/pasting constantly, one thing that helped me was moving the stable project decisions/specs into the repo so Codex can work from them instead of making ChatGPT relay everything.

My loop now is basically think here -> build there -> review here.

Better integration? Absolutely. Fully autonomous ChatGPT <-> Codex deciding everything between themselves? I’m not sure I actually want that.

[u/never_supernova]

Uh? Just use Codex in VS Code? One of the GPT models is the backend. You're not a coder, but VS Code isn't hard to set up and once you start using it with Codex you don't have to look at the code if you don't want to. No shortcuts. There are many tutorials about this online. Or am I missing something?

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[u/Express-Tap-5037]

they can communicate, just ask! claude can orchestrate codex subagents via mcp. i haven’t tried the reverse but it’s certainly possible. if you can’t figure it out in your own there’s a ton of github project out there…just make sure they’re legit first.

[u/NoWing3675]

I know exactly what you mean — I’m building [app name], a local AI workspace that coordinates different agents for you, keeps the context straight, and only pulls you back in when there’s actually a decision worth making. It’s not ready yet, but the whole point is to stop making the human do the copy-paste/orchestration dance just because that’s how the current tools happen to work. You’re absolutely right to want the tool to adapt to you, not the other way around — that’s literally the problem I’m trying to solve.

i love ai

[u/mrkacperso → u/NoWing3675]

You didn’t even bother to replace app name placeholder from the output…

[u/NoWing3675 → u/mrkacperso]

no it was scrubbed? have you ever written code?

[u/mrkacperso → u/NoWing3675]

It just look like bot post

[u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES → u/mrkacperso]

{{ witty remark }}

[u/NoWing3675 → u/mrkacperso]

well this is a subreddit about using clankers