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Asking Codex questions and generating tasks

Asking Codex questions and generating tasks - OpenAI Codex Tutorial

From the course: Automate Development Tasks with OpenAI’s Codex

Asking Codex questions and generating tasks

- Codex can handle two types of tasks, ask as well as code tasks, so we'll get started by focusing on ask tasks. When you give Codex an ask task, it's similar to asking questions from a chat bot. It starts by analyzing your code, and then, takes care of anything you've asked in the prompt, but one thing that makes it different is that it can also generate code tasks, so let's start with a simple ask task, I'll just say, "Tell me what technologies are used in this repo?" I'll make sure that I have the proper repo selected here from this list. Notice that "Code" will be the default, so I have to make sure that I click on "Ask," and it will start off by generating a container using the settings we used earlier. When it's done, it will show you a little blue dot and the task. Any tasks that you create can be archived using this archive button, that will switch them over to the archived tags, where you can see projects that you've previously finished. If you click on the task, you'll get a…

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