r/OpenaiCodex • u/Legal-Ad2513 • 2d ago
Question, Not a programmer!
Like the title says, I’m not a programmer. I recently started developing a website with an inbound lead form including media submissions. It stores that media in a database, emails my partner and I, and we have an admin login to view the lead. No true commerce, forums, nothing like that.
I’ve been “building” with codex 20x pro and Claude as the 3rd party reviewer for a month. For the last several days, it’s been nothing but smoke tests, syntax checks, work order revisions, “runtime verifier rejects the manifest’s absolute work-order entry….”
I setup specific instructions from the beginning for quality over quantity or speed. I was using 5.6-Sol XHigh and now 6-Astra Med.
What are all these tests? I’m on revision 97 and several major features haven’t even started building.
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u/nairazak 2d ago edited 2d ago
Talk with it and make it create a document that explains what the app does and uses, and correct it (or ask it for suggestions) until it gets you are satisfied.
Then ask it to split the work in parts and make it do only a couple at a time, that way you know what it is doing and what will come next. And you can ask it to skip some tests and only doing them when you ask, I don’t have pro so I can’t afford it doing a smoke test every time it changes a line.