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Set up your Codex environment

Set up your Codex environment - OpenAI Codex Tutorial

From the course: OpenAI Codex 101: From Idea to Deployed App

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Set up your Codex environment

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Before you can build anything with Codex, you need three things. A ChatGPT account on a paid plan, a GitHub account, and a project to work in. If you already have a ChatGPT Plus, Crow, or business subscription, you have Codex access. If you don't have a GitHub account yet, go to github.com and create a free one. We'll use GitHub throughout this course, and you'll need it when we deploy later. Let's get everything connected. Open your browser and go to chatgpt.com slash codex. This is the codex web interface and it's where you'll spend most of your time. You'll see an input area where you type tasks and a sidebar for managing your work. Before you do anything else, you need to connect a GitHub repository. So let's create a repo for our project. Head over to GitHub and create a new repository. Name it something like my-link-bio. Make it private for now. Initialize with a README and add a GitHub ignore. Select Python, which makes sure it doesn't check environment variables in, and we'll…

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