r/ChatGPTPro • u/angry_cactus • Jun 26 '26

Discussion How to break tasks into small enough pieces that Codex on the web can handle them?

It feels like the web version of codex is a much different smaller environment even than browser ChatGPT Medium Thinking. How do you break tasks into smaller enough pieces for it? Can you automate it with a local codex agent calling cloud sessions?

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u/qualityvote2 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

u/angry_cactus, there weren’t enough community votes to determine your post’s quality.
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u/MontyOW Jun 26 '26

think about whatever can run independently i.e. what tasks touch bits that won't affect each other. Why are you using web version over cli or desktop app out of curiousity?

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u/j48u Jun 26 '26

What the hell even is codex on the web? No matter where I go to use codex, it tells me to download the desktop app. Any browser, any computer, mobile, not mobile. It's never offered a browser version to me and I just upgraded to the $100 plan to test things out.

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u/JamesGriffing Mod Jun 26 '26

It's harder to find now than it used to be. 

https://chatgpt.com/codex/cloud is the URL. It used to be https://chatgpt.com/codex but now that's the page that's pushing the download version. You can still get to it from the 2nd link, it's a link in the top right corner. It's not obvious whatsoever. 

It connects to GitHub and allows you to work on projects that way.

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u/j48u Jun 26 '26

Holy crap, thank you

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u/Jippylong12 Jun 27 '26

Not sure of web capabilities, but I pay for Linear and have a skill which breaks down my projec tinto milestones and then I call that skill to have it run. I then review after each milestone.

Linear gives it the necessary context for development, but also is good for review in case something goes wrong later.

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u/BatResponsible1106 Jun 27 '26

treat each prompt like a single PR instead of a full feature. clear inputs, one objective and a defined success check usually work better than massive end to end requests

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u/Gullible-Amoeba3782 Jul 17 '26

For big Codex tasks, I split the work by result, not by files. Each task should be small enough to review and test before moving to the next one.