Computer & browser use in Codex (5 real examples)

One of my favorite guests ever, Jessie Janae, said that AI was great for moms because moms' hands are always busy. We're always doing something with our hands, and we do not have time to talk. Now in that episode, she was talking about the benefits of chatting with AI. But in this episode, which I'm gonna lovingly call, Look Ma, No Hands, I'm gonna talk about browser and computer use, the way that you can let AI navigate your computer and navigate websites to get work done on your behalf. Browser and computer use have gotten exceptionally good recently, especially in my experience with codecs and the GPT 5.6 models. And I'm gonna show you a builder use case, a productivity use case, and a personal fun use case that I found super useful in using computer and browser use. Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by Runway, a new kind of creative platform that has everything you need to generate any image, video, or piece of content you want all in one place. With Runway, it's now possible to go from initial idea to a finished deliverable in a matter of minutes. From turning low fidelity product shots into campaign ready imagery all the way through putting together big brand films, Runway can help your team scale your creative ambitions while keeping your budgets and timelines from doing the same. Runway brings together the world's most advanced AI models, which is why enterprises like Microsoft, Robinhood, Amazon, and Adobe, along with studios like Lionsgate and Legendary, all use Runway to ship real work every day. Try it yourself at runwayml.com/howiai, Promo code howiai. Okay. Before we dive into how I use computer use, just a refresher for anybody who's new. In case you missed it, these LLMs, your AI chatbot, can control your computer and can control your browser. Now there have been a class of AI native browsers that have come out in the last year, thinking about Perplexity's Comet or ChatGPT's Atlas. But I like to use browser and computer use directly through Quad or, in this instance, Codex. Why have I used Codex, specifically the Codex desktop app, or I guess we're calling it the ChatGPT desktop app these days. Well, it is just the best at controlling my computer. And if you didn't know, it can control the mouse, it can control the keyboard, it can do all sorts of things. So imagine you have a virtual coworker and that coworker can put hands on your keyboard and get stuff done on your computer. That is what browser and computer use can do. Now this sounds really scary, but in fact, it has been one of the most life changing features of AI. Certainly professionally changing, but has also reduced so much personal toil and personal digital toil that I had to tell you about a couple of the use cases that I use because I literally use this every …