Using Codex as my OS

Increasingly, I’m using Codex (or other AI coding agents) as the “operating system” to run programs. That is, rather than directly run programs, I have the coding agent run the program. Advantage: If the program breaks, or needs a configuration change, the coding agent debugs it and fixes it. I don’t need to do anything. This is particularly useful for installation. For example: Install demucs and run it against my music folder. It’s also useful for brittle scripts. When my WhatsApp scraper broke, I told Codex: The scraper was working fine but today, it fails. Find out what changed in the WhatsApp Web UI and fix it. Codex researched and replied: The current scraper still finds the chat area and message rows, but its row-identity parser is now invalid. On March 28 the code assumed each message node had a packed data-id like: true_<chat-id>@..._<message-id> false_<chat-id>@..._<message-id> Today, in the live WhatsApp tab, the visible message nodes still exist under #main [role="row"],…