Researcher used Codex to rescue 3 years of baby photos in 45 minutes
thegautamkamath · x · 2026-09-13
Gautam Kamath shares a positive AI story: his baby monitor auto-captures photos/videos, but manual downloading one-by-one was infeasible for 9k files over 3 years. He had Codex write a script that downloaded everything in 45 minutes — preserving irreplaceable footage of his son growing up.
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