Codex is already strong at reading, generating, and modifying code, but it still feels too file-level for real-world software development. The core gap is this: Developers do not just need help writing code. They need help understanding the system they are changing. Today, too much important con…

Why AI output still feels stilted. devoid of meaningful content over-patterned on phrases like its “not just”, or “why this matters” disconnection from reality an illusion of intelligence that extrapolates language from very little provided content as input. Much better is to provide the prompt y…

[image] bv2309: One-line summary: Turn a codebase into an interactive, explainable system — then let AI safely modify it with full context and continuous validation. Not sure I appreciate the cut & paste from ChatGPT or equivalent, but there is a germ of an idea here.

_j I hope this finds you well, but I’m not here to adhere to some imaginary rules about how I should communicate my ideas. Here is the prompt that might help you understand the vision about it and if you need a new assistant vision leader ring me up. Here is the refined version of the brainstorming…

[image] bv2309: The biggest remaining gap in AI-assisted software development is not file-level code generation, but system-level understanding. You write “today, too much context is missing”, with concerns about holistic code base understanding, prompting and human shortcomings, and testing.…

_j I don’t have the energy for squares like you. I just hope someone with opinion worth processing reads the idea.

Codex-cli is open source, just fork it. You don’t need a fancy interface necessarily.

@merefield I’ve been thinking about it but this one needs to be implemented into the Codex itself, I’d use something like Unity interface or similar alternative for broader coverage.

Thanks for the tip, if I find the time, I’ll try.

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Why don’t you fork codex and try to implement some of these features?

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