I was messing about during the F1 this morning seeing how far I could conceivably get with Codex controlling my Unifi stuff.

Talking to software is the future, the new UI paradigm, I'm fairly convinced of that. We're in this uncanny valley - a bit like we are with "driverless" cars - where we are asking AI systems to control systems (drive a car) like a human would.

Unifi is an interesting example here because many of the administrative tasks are not exposed via an API (this is sad). So you have to play clickops to do it.

So using Playwright, I had codex create a skill for itself that could monitor and configure my WiFi channels on my 3 APs and notify of any issues. It took about 45 mins end to end but now I have piece of bespoke software that does exactly what I need it to do.

So, I ask you. What are software companies going to be doing in a few years time? Things are going to look real different.

https://github.com/ironicbadger/codex-skill-unifi-network-ops