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# I gave GPT 5.5 an empty GitHub repo and told it to figure its life out

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**Published:** July 6, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1upb4vw/i_gave_gpt_55_an_empty_github_repo_and_told_it_to/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

I had this dumb idea a few days ago: What happens if I give GPT 5.5 an empty GitHub repo, tell it to work on it every hour, and just let it slowly build something? So now, every hour, it wakes up, checks what it did before, decides what it should do next, writes code, tests it, and commits it. Or at least that is the plan. Right now, it has spent its first commit creating a roadmap, a changelog, a state file, and a file explaining its decisions. So basically, it became a project manager immediat

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