From the course: OpenAI Codex 101: From Idea to Deployed App
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Review and evaluate the output - OpenAI Codex Tutorial
From the course: OpenAI Codex 101: From Idea to Deployed App
Review and evaluate the output
You wrote a focused prompt and confirmed the output match what you asked for. That was about the skill of writing a good prompt. Now you're going to slow down. You're going to submit a new prompt and this time you'll pay attention to two things. What Codex does while it works and whether what it produced is actually any good. These are the skills that make you effective with Codex long term. Here's your prompt. Type this into Codex. Add a second route, at about, that displays a heading that says about and a short paragraph that says, this is my personal link page. Add a navigation link to the about page at the top of the homepage. Submit it and watch the log. Codex works in phases. First, it sets up the environment, which runs in a container. You'll see it's reading the configuration item we added to Install Flask. Then it reads your project files, including agents.md, your readme, your license, and your existing app.py. This is the persistence context you set up working for you…