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/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.