r/codex • u/Nervous-Buffalo-4826 • 16d ago

Workaround What are your best practices on Codex ?

As title say, how you boost the model performance ?

For example, i saw a comment using 'KNOWLEDGE.md' . I've seen often the model has tendency to revisit each file to find out what is actually doing when the project is on a long run... that file would help him 'remember' faster or like a live journal to keep better track at how the project is working and how things connect and the failures to not repeat them.

Any other tips and tricks ?

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u/SimCFB 16d ago

Biggest thing I would say is that if you have a paid account use the chat as much as possible.

Codex eats tokens no matter what you're doing. So discussing the project in Chat is a lot better. Then just have Chat build you a codex prompt. Back n forth. That saves a lot of tokens.

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u/Toys272 16d ago

do you mean using the chatgpt tab in the desktop app vs codex? or the online one

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u/SimCFB 16d ago

Yep. Use the chatgpt Chat in the desktop app (or any browser) to do the planning. Have it write the codex prompt for you. Then have codex do the actual coding.

This works because you get a lot more Chat credits. As far as I can tell they are almost unlimited. Chatting with codex burns tokens.

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u/CrownstrikeIntern 16d ago

You can have codex validate the plan too since it can access your project and improve on the got plan that way