A new feature for my blog, built using my voice
I used the ChatGPT desktop app for this, in the Codex tab, using the voice conversation mode, running against a local development environment.
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Key points
- I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away to my laptop while I cooked dinner.
- I started the session against my local simonwillisonblog checkout by typing:
- I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to build, and it's a simple enough Django feature that I was certain the model (in this case GPT-6 Astra High) would be able to do it.
- Here's an extract of my voice transcript that was captured by Codex:
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- [1]A new feature for my blog, built using my voiceSimon Willison's Weblog · Oct 9, 12:54 PM
I used the ChatGPT desktop app for this, in the Codex tab, using the voice conversation mode, running against a local development environment.
I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away to my laptop while I cooked dinner.
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