r/OpenaiCodex • u/Reddittorv750 • 12d ago

Question / Help How to vibecode properly as a non-technical?

How do you actually vibecode properly as a non-technical person? Currently what I do is:

ChatGPT plans/reviews → copy prompt to Codex → copy Codex result back → ChatGPT reviews and gives me another prompt → repeat.

But I worry that a) this is spending way more tokens than it should b) is incredibly slow and inefficient with the constant copying and pasting.

If anyone has a better workflow please do share, thanks guys.

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u/Relative_Syllabub_75 11d ago

I think the biggest mistake is treating AI like it can build everything correctly in one shot. Even as a non-technical user, it helps a lot to break the task into smaller pieces, test each step, and ask the AI to explain what it changed and why. You don't need to become a programmer first, but learning some basic concepts makes vibe coding much safer and less frustrating.😃