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1 NOV 2026 · Hacker News · 87 pts · 50 comments ↗

A developer has been using unlimited ChatGPT conversations for software development, leveraging OpenAI's Secure MCP Tunnel to expose tools running on their machines to regular ChatGPT conversations, effectively replacing Codex usage for many practical development tasks. To optimize this workflow, they built a unified MCP server and integrated open-source projects like Desktop Commander and CUA, allowing ChatGPT to inspect repositories, modify code, run commands, and debug errors. However, OpenAI has now announced changes to kill unlimited Chats and merge them with Codex usage. AI summary