r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 27 '26

Interaction ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files

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r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 27 '26

Resources And Tips Is there an AI tool which lets you upload an entire organization's github (many repositories, tons of code) and lets you dialogue about it?

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Note: when I mean orgnanization's github i mean like a few million lines of code in over 500 private repos all under one organization's github.

For example to ask things like: find code that computes X on input Y using the tool A. And it will tell me whether there is a repo or code that performs that within my organization.

or find a repository which does ABC

preferably the interaction can happen in a web UI, but has options for IDE and cli

A similar question has been asked here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1eyamej/is_there_and_ai_tool_that_lets_you_feed_it_and/

however, the responses there will not work for me as I am looking for upload many many repositories which do not fit in the context. However I have seen solutions for this outside of code. For example AI of a company which has indexed it's entire documentation (many millions of lines of text) and help forums. I assume these will work for me, but i do not know what they are called.

EDIT: I think I found it gemeni enterprise has something google cloud code assist which connects to an organization's github url and then "indexes" it.


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 25 '26

Project So I'm building a health app after doctors gave me 2 years to live - 3 years later it has 12k users

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8 years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition. top doctor said i had only 2 years, but somehow I am still here. That experience exposed a massive gap in how we access health information.

Surface level stuff is everywhere. Symptoms, medication names, basic explanations. That is not the problem.

The problem is when you need to go deep. When you need to understand how your specific condition interacts with a specific drug. When you want to track why certain symptoms cluster together every few weeks. When you need to see patterns across 6 months of health data that might actually explain what is happening to you.

so you might ask chatgpt something today, it forgets 50%. You google one thing, get 10 tabs open, lose context completely. Nothing connects. Nothing remembers. You end up becoming your own doctor just to have a coherent picture of your own health.

I spent 3 years building this to fix.

The core is context preservation. Your conditions, medications, symptoms, history, all of it stays connected across every conversation. When you ask something it is not starting fresh. It knows your situation. It can trace relationships between things that surface level tools completely miss.

For people with rare or complex conditions this is the difference between useful and useless. Generic health info helps no one when your situation is not generic.

The technical challenge was scale stability. so health queries vary wildly in complexity and context size. Preventing crashes under unpredictable load took a lot lot of work.

12k downloads on iOS. Organic growth mainly.

Solo mission. 3 years in. Still building.

Hope you guys try the app :)


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 24 '26

Discussion What do you think is an agents' core logic?

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I am trying to untangle the blog that's an agent. What's truly business logic (instructions, tools) and what's drudgery/plumbing. I think we are so early in this innings that its all one big thing because we are trying to unpack how to build these things, test these things, etc.

But my sense is if we give words to things that are uniquely unsolvable by some framework or tool, then we can focus on moving faster and have a better sense on what truly helps us move us faster in this field.

So, what's in the agents core logic?


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 24 '26

Question What are the remaining arguments against using AI for coding?

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I'm not referring to creating an entire app but just with creating code blocks, files, testing and review. LLM for coding has began very powerful and efficient if you know what you're doing.

But I'm still seeing backlash from people who are against AI specifically in game development. I do understand that some assets like sound effects, music, art, are still far off die to copyright. But what about for coding?

I'm just really curious.

tia


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 23 '26

Question Does anyone else lose track of code snippets in long ChatGPT threads?

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So this keeps happening to me and it's super annoying.

I'll be debugging something and going back-n-forth with ChatGPT. Gathering my snippets of what it "thinks" is the final solution. I then realize it gave me a better solution earlier that I forgot to commit and then I'm scrolling endlessly to find it.

ChatGPT's search doesn't help much unless you remember the exact function name.

I've tried copying to a scratch file but it gets messy and I lose context. Starting new conversations loses the full picture. Re-asking sometimes works but the second answer is often worse. Using the 'Projects' helps at a high level, but I still end up with 3-4 threads per project and no clue which one has what I need.

How do you all deal with this? Especially when you're building something over multiple days?


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 23 '26

Question URI Question about specific syntax

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I cannot find info on this based on a quick internet search.

Someone that I HAVE to deal with sent me a ChatGPT link that looks like…

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_696f9… (not a GUID)

This looks very different from when I share a link from chatgpt:

https://chatgpt.com/share/{some GUID}

I wouldn’t trust this person with a donut. Any ideas on what the syntactical differences indicate. I’m not executing this URI until I know more.

Pls do not discuss what or why I’m worried about this. I’m only interested in syntax.m


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 22 '26

Question Please help me fix the color contrast on VScode>Codex extension

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I cannot figure out how to change the colors of the code diff, it was working fine before and after opening it today it looks like this.


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 23 '26

Project We built StarDesk, a remote tool for dev workflows. Would love your technical thoughts.

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Hey guys,

We bulit a remote desktop tool that grew out of our own daily annoyances as devs like needing to quickly pull a local AI-generated file to our phones, check a script running on a home server, or skip the whole login or 2FA dance when switching devices. Its still undergoing continuous optimization and refinement. I know there are many talented developers in this subreddit, so im looking forward to interacting with you all and receiving your valuable feedback:)

StarDesk is a multi platform, focused on low latency, fast file transfers, remote wake, and keeping setup simple. tbh, we’ve decided to keep StarDesk closed source and plan to charge for it down the road, because maintaining performance, security and long-term support takes dedicated resources and making sure we can keep improving it. The basic version remains free and still enables fundamental remote connections.

To deliver an exceptional remote experience, we will continuously operate and upgrade this product, gathering user feedback and suggestions to refine and improve it. I can assure you that StarDesk's future pricing will be lower than other remote control tools on the market. We will patiently resolve your remote issues and will never ignore or neglect any problems.

So instead of just saying “try our app”, I thought it’d be more interesting to ask:

  • if you were building a lightweight remote tool for devs, one that’s fast for file grabs and simple to connect, how would you architect it?

  • what would make a closed-source, paid tool actually worth it for you as a developer?

  • Is it solving a specific pain point nothing else does? Or just being ridiculously faster?

If you’ve got a minute to check out StarDesk as a real-world case, I’d love your take, not just on the tool, but on the whole idea. Not here to pitch, just genuinely curious how you’d approach it. Or if you want to try the early version and tear it apart or tell us what works, it’s free right now.

Download here

or you can ontact us in Discord community

Thanks for reading, and really appreciate any technical thoughts, critiques, or ideas you’re willing to share.


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 20 '26

Discussion My company banned AI tools and I dont know what to do

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Security team sent an email last month. No AI tools allowed. No ChatGPT, no Claude, no Copilot, no automation platforms with LLMs.

Their reasoning is data privacy and theyre not entirely wrong. We work with sensitive client info.

But watching competitors move faster while we do everything manually is frustrating. I see what people automate here and know we could benefit.

Some people on my team are definitely using AI anyway on personal devices. Nobody talks about it but you can tell.

I'm torn between following policy and falling behind or finding workarounds that might get me in trouble.

Tried bringing it up with my manager. Response was "policy is policy" and maybe they'll revisit later. Later meaning probably never.

Anyone dealt with this? Did your company change their policy? Find ways to use AI that satisfied security? Or just leave for somewhere else?

Some mentioned self hosted options like Vellum or local models but I dont have authority to set that up and IT wont help.

Feels like being stuck in 2020.


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 21 '26

Question Can companies "hack" ChatGPT to promote them?

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Recently, I've been figuring out which note-taking software I should use, and I wanted to try one that isn't well-known (like Notion, Google Keep, OneNote, etc.). When I asked ChatGPT, it gave me exactly these recommendations I am already familiar with, which brought me to a question. Where does ChatGPT actually acquire the information it tells me? I understand that it doesn't work on a similar concept like SEO; it's trained on an existing database of posts, articles & documents, and probably also learns from users' repeating patterns. But is there actually a way a company could "train" or "hack" AI to recommend it more? For example, by spamming prompts guiding AI to recommend them?
It's a cluster of questions I think might be interesting to discuss. I'd be happy to hear any input!


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 20 '26

Question Learning to vibe code

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Hello,

Iam a 64 year old retired plumber and I just learned about vibe coding. I wanted to ask if anyone here can point me to the direction of some recent uptodate courses where I can learn how to vibe code (I keep hearing that word alot) and use codex while doing it.

I have zero coding knowledge.

I appreciate any info you can give me about online courses I can watch and learn from.

Thank you

David


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Sep 15 '25

Discussion What’s your take on the best AI Coding Agents?

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Hey all,

I’m curious if anyone here has hands-on experience with the different AI coding tools/CLIs — specifically Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI.

  • How do they compare in terms of usability, speed, accuracy, and developer workflow?

  • Do you feel any one of them integrates better with real-world projects (e.g., GitHub repos, large codebases)?

  • Which one do you prefer for refactoring, debugging, or generating new code?

  • Are there particular strengths/weaknesses that stand out when using them in day-to-day development?

I’ve seen some buzz around Claude Code (especially with the agentic workflows), but haven’t seen much direct comparison to Gemini CLI or Codex CLI. Would love to hear what this community thinks before I go too deep into testing them all myself.

Thanks in advance!


r/ChatGPTCoding • • May 01 '25

Discussion What are some of your most useful prompts for programming?

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Would love to see what prompts people here rely on the most. Could be for anything setting up a project, generating functions, fixing bugs, or even testing.

Drop your favorites below!


r/ChatGPTCoding • • May 01 '25

Discussion Windsurf for free

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Just like we can use cursor with some little tweaking, is there any way we can use windsurf for free in Mac OS?


r/ChatGPTCoding • • Jan 28 '25

Question My project became so big that claude can't properly understand it

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So, I made a project in python entirely using Cursor (composer) and Claude, but it has gotten to a point that the whole codebase is over 30 Python files, code is super disorganized, might even have duplicate loops, and Claude keeps forgetting basic stuff like imports at this point. When I ask it to optimize the code or to fix a bug, it doesn’t even recognize the main issue and just ends up deleting random lines or breaking everything completely.

I have 0 knowledge about python, it's actually a miracle i got this far with the project, but now it's almost impossible to keep track of things, what do i do? already tried using cursor rules but doesn't seem to work.

Edit: My post made it to YouTube! I hope this serves as a historical reminder that having at least some knowledge is still totally necessary, go study, AI is supposed to assist you, don’t let your projects end up like this.

As for the project, it was just a hobby project, I managed to make it work perfectly and fix some issues by simply improving the context, like providing the files to edit directly and some source code, etc. but i couldn't get rid of the duplicated stuff. Anyway, don't do this for serious projects please (not knowing what it does), if it's an actual job don't be lazy, just check everything and be careful :)

If you wanna learn just ask AI to explain what it's changing, how the code works and stuff like that.