I never have to fill out a form again

I heard one of the guys on the Codex team say on a podcast that he never has to fill out a form anymore. He just has Codex do it in his logged-in browser.

I knew Codex could use a browser. I just didn't realize the new browser control could work this cleanly in my existing browser session, as opposed to launching a separate one.

I've done a decent amount of Playwright automation, but it generally runs in its own browser session. It's great for stuff I'm going to do repeatedly, but it doesn't really help when I need to sign up for some random thing once.

I hadn't upgraded the ChatGPT app in a while and didn't realize how much had been added. Now when I run into a form, I can just tell Codex to do it in the browser I'm already using.

I'm working on a bank import thing using Plaid and had to go through their whole signup process. I barely even looked at it. Codex just did it.

It's glorious.

There is a crazy amount of cognitive overhead in going to some website, figuring out its registration flow, filling everything in, and clicking through all the little steps. None of it is hard. It just completely interrupts whatever you were actually doing.

I may actually never fill out a form again.