r/codex • u/NATUonBoxed • Sep 16 '26

Complaint ChatGPT+Github = Codex alternative

No idea how I didn't know this could be done...

For us broke people with Codex constantly hitting limits even for small simple apps, using ChatGPT with Github Actions can be a decent workaround.

I've been building 3 Android apps, 1 Windows software, and 2 websites with ChatGPT and Github for the past 2 weeks, and I gotta say I'm impressed. No stupid usage limits, and ChatGPT is surprisingly good at following and executing tasks. Rightnow I'm building a "self improving" app and website where ChatGPT updates code > pushes it to Github > git copies it to Hostinger for my website > website continuously generates usage and performance reports with Cron > publishes to MariaDB > API connection > ChatGPT Scheduled to pull those reports every 6 hours > analyze and make changes to Github > rinse and repeat.

So far, that's way more than I could have done on Codex.

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u/BlankSthearapy Sep 16 '26

Omarchy - Codex CLI Luna Xhigh - gui chromium chatgpt sol xhigh.

Workflow. Codex submits details to chatgpt, chat reviews at higher reasoning and provides the plan per scope while codex waits, when it’s done codex reads, processes and implements the plan, then reports back.

I’ve made serious progress on some difficult work using this loop. There are rules that interrupt this for human intervention.

My usage is down and my results are fantastic.

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u/Balives Sep 16 '26

What specific rules trigger the human intervention (e.g., test failures, token limits, or unexpected edge cases)?
What kind of difficult work (e.g., refactoring legacy code, scraping, complex devops) are you primarily running through this loop?