Using ChatGPT for Planning vs Codex?
OpenAI Developer Community
June 13, 2026
ChatGPT can not execute PHP code or spawn a database inside its ephemeral environment so you will have to test on your side. Codex is absolutely capable of refactoring old code on its own.
For this kind of task I probably would’ve used the Hermes Agent - it is far superior to Codex in long-horizon jobs.
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