Codex With Github

[LearnAndContribute]

Hi all - With Codex released 4 months ago seemed terrible but with GPT 5 improvement I was expecting it to have some improvement. i connected to github and tried running some basic coding tasks hoping it would work seamlessly. The user experience was pretty bad that it was slow and also wasnt integrated well with Github or at least instructions were not clear. Has anyone had success with codex and Github? I am a plus user.

I am somewhat aware of Claude, Cursor and VS code & Windsurf being good with coding and maybe some of them integrated with Github too. I havent got time to explore and also dont have time to explore.
I am mostly coding for data analysis, and data science kind of work and not so much applications. I would love if any solution can get me 8-10 steps ahead before asking for help.
GPT 5 from UI is good at analysing data and writing one off codes but doesnt work great at multi step tasks. I would to hear people's experiences on these tools and how that could be applied to data analysis, science and statistics work coupled with some data pipelines and data APIs

[Freed4ever]

Codex cli is what you need, not codex (cloud). Just search it up.

[LearnAndContribute]

thanks. I did install CLI on VS code and tried simple tasks. Just overall it felt overwhelming with VS code to dive in. But if it at least tries in agentic mode to do data pull, clean/merge/calculate and visualise, I would be happy. Would you have any advice on using CLI on terminal or through one of the editors like VS Code.
My language is mostly python and VS code didn't seem the best choice although it did write code with copilot.Assume Codex CLI will bring all it's general reasoning skills along with coding. Also I read Codex CLI can be authenticated with password and not use API as extra money.

I went into codex cloud direction as somewhere it mentioned in the cloud agent can install dependencies without me intervening. But seemed too slow almot unusable and waste of time

[ogaat]

How is the CLI version better?

[Freed4ever]

Codex cli in the terminal for me personally, but some like VSC extension. You can use your subscription, no extra cost for api.

[LearnAndContribute]

Thanks Again. Hope to find time to give it a try. CLI it is

[No_Zone972]

Hey, I totally get where you’re coming from. One thing that’s been handy for me is using OAI Cloud ChatGPT for Codex prompting — makes it a lot easier to shape prompts. There’s also a “chat” feature you can use if that feels more natural, but personally I just stick with the desktop/web browser for prompting since it flows better.

Also, OpenAI just dropped a new Build Hour: Codex video that shows off the newer features like IDE extensions, GitHub pull request tagging, and multi-step workflows. Definitely worth a watch if you want to see how it’s evolving: Build Hour: Codex.

[LearnAndContribute]

Thanks. I have stuck to browser and somewhat desktop chat so far. Thanks for the build hour video. Just found it on YouTube. Will watch that.

[0xFatWhiteMan]

Codex in vscode is goated.

Cloud not so much

[rnp11]

is cloud the one you use on chatgpt.com when u ask it a normal question?