Dev gets into Claude Startups by telling Codex on iPhone to "apply for me"
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-08
Developer @andilosing went viral for a one-liner workflow: before hitting the gym, he opened Codex on his iPhone, sent it the link to Anthropic's Claude Startups program, said "apply for me," and came back to find he'd been accepted. The retweeter @HonestCodelol jokes that the flood of people applying to the program should think twice about whether they actually need it — a small but telling demo of how far autonomous agents can now carry end-to-end application tasks.
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