Using Codex to Directly Control Your PC for Chores
petergyang · x · 2026-07-15
The author shares a practical conclusion: not every annoying workflow requires an API or a custom app.
They originally wanted to build an app or automation to "check the last 10 watched YouTube videos, organize the last 10 X bookmarks, and extract useful info," but ran into access restrictions and API permission issues with X and YouTube. Ultimately, they switched to letting Codex directly use the computer to complete administrative tasks via existing interfaces, which ran smoothly.
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