My Oscar 2026 Picks

Every year I make my Oscar predictions. This year I put together a small website with my ballot that updates every five minutes during the awards show using data scraped from the Oscars' realtime feed via Chrome DevTools, published with Claude using the new scheduled tasks /loop bundled skill.

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To set this up, I just asked Claude to set up a cron, which it interpreted as creating a schedule. And it runs this task every five minutes for the duration of the show, which I predicted to be about 3.5 hours long.

Claude is so smart 🤯

Then it just visits this website in Chrome and gets the data.

Chrome being controlled by Claude

Then Claude updates the HTML, commits the change, and pushes it. Because it’s a GitHub Pages site, the update is deployed automatically via a GitHub Action.

Final Results for 2026

BTW the craziest part was Claude actually detected the tie and handled that perfectly.

Claude got the tie.And wrapped up with a nice ending