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Modern AI tools function as autonomous assistants that execute complex technical tasks with minimal input. Nick Baumann reported that a model can capture active applications like Slack and iteratively verify edits while blurring moving lines.
Providing a single prompt allows the AI to determine all subsequent steps independently.
“I sell it one thing and then it figures out all the other things on it own.”
From OpenAI's Codex Voice: Your AI Assistant That Sees Your Screen
The AI takes an appshot of the active screen to read the environment. Nick Baumann stated the system uses open applications like Slack to gather information before taking action.
“What happened there is it can already see my screen. You can see I've got Slack opened up. And what it did is it took an appshot.”
From OpenAI's Codex Voice: Your AI Assistant That Sees Your Screen
The model repeatedly adds blurs to lines in a scrolling video and verifies the accuracy. Nick Baumann detailed how the system iteratively checks the edits until reaching a good result.
“…it did this like insanely granular work of like blurring out literally lines and then following it while I'm scrolling and it does all this like verification where it it adds these blurs. It checks its own work and then it like does that over and over again until it's good and then it gives you like, you know, a good result.”
From AI Blurs Sensitive Video, Edits Itself: Nick Bowman's Codex Workflow
“…delegate and manage these, you know, fully, you know, five, six threads on its own.”
From OpenAI's Codex Voice: Your AI Assistant That Sees Your Screen
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