Simon Willison builds a blog newsletter index with Codex voice mode
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On October 9, Simon Willison described building a Newsletters index for his blog using Codex voice mode. While cooking, he talked to GPT-6 Astra High through the Codex tab in the ChatGPT desktop app, driving development almost entirely by voice and finishing the Django data model, four importers, an archive page and search integration in about half an hour. He then spent another half hour fixing API imports for a private GitHub repo and the page display, finishing deployment with keyboard prompts and code review.
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Simon Willison built a blog Newsletters index almost entirely through Codex voice mode, then finished deployment with keyboard prompts and code review. Talking to GPT-6 Astra High in the Codex tab of the ChatGPT desktop app while cooking, he got the Django data model, four import paths, archive pages and search integration done in about half an hour, then spent another half hour fixing the API import for a private GitHub repo and the page display.
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