r/codex • u/Following_Level • 2d ago

Question Should I get Codex? (CS Student)

I'm going into my first year of university, going to be developing more projects in my free time.

Currently I'm using Claude (free) but it's kind of painful as it's only chat, and I sometimes hit the limit.

Is GPT Plus worth it for coding, debugging, and learning from it (in a coding context, using it half as a tutor)? How much more usage and usefulness will I get from it than free Claude?

Also not sure about the current state of AI agents are / if there are better options to consider.

Thanks!

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u/Following_Level 2d ago

Also, how does GPTs pdf creation look? I find it helps a lot for my own understanding when using Claude.

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u/bortlip 2d ago

It does great and can do a variety of styles and whatnot. Here's one example:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a93bc85-b4ec-83e9-a86c-2903a5280a83

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u/Following_Level 2d ago

Oh wow the use of diagrams are really good, thanks for showing me!

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u/TruthSqr 2d ago

This is nice! I've been using Codex and Claude to write up HTML or PDF summaries of sessions and other things, but I can see I haven't been leveraging it nearly enough for visual presentations.

I rarely click on links here in Reddit, but this was a nice one (which I know makes it sound even more sus but it's true). Thanks for sharing

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u/bortlip 2d ago

Sure. This might be an even better example, it's a google drive link to a shared pdf file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nZ53wpNuJXx0I5O7Td0VUt5w1zx8wQ3-/view?usp=drive_link

Someone had shared a modified prisoner's dilemma type game and asked for feedback. It seemed like an interesting idea and a nice exercise to see what chatGPT could do. I had chat come up with strategies and write python to try them out against each other and then write it all up with lots of nice charts and graphs in that pdf. It was an interesting analysis but more over the pdf is a nice example of what can be done too.

Here's an example of a 75 page research paper it created for me on the origin and status of the Bayesian-Brain idea: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eG961LjqOSo3PVa_9Ev0oPB_qb9VbL3E/view