Codex automation checked SF apartment listings hourly and won the lease first
nickbaumann_ · x · 2026-07-28
A Codex automation helped someone find and apply for an SF apartment
The quoted post says a Codex-based automation checked apartment listings every hour and ultimately helped the author get their current San Francisco apartment because it was the first to apply using computer use.
This is a concrete example of agentic automation being used for a real-world workflow outside coding: monitoring a marketplace, reacting quickly, and completing the application before humans could manually catch up.
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