OpenAI Codex Can Now Control Your Mac Apps to Write Code For You. No API Needed.

We've all been there. You need to automate some repetitive workflow — maybe running a simulator, clicking through a UI to reproduce a bug, or pulling data from a tool that never bothered to ship an API. You stare at the screen, sigh, and do it manually. Again. The "no API" problem has haunted developer tooling for years. AppleScript helps sometimes. Accessibility APIs get you partway. But the real game-changer arriving in 2026 is screen-aware AI agents — tools that can literally see your displa...