This is neat! Tried the finder example and was impressed how quick it was.
I would love it if it can support ios simulator, iphone? I am using Maestro but it is so damn slow and seems to be token hungry.
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#12lahfir, I vouched your (currently still dead) comment because it was interesting to me. I expect the reason it is dead is that it seems LLM-generated (you "quietly" launched it on github? Who says that?). Also, your comment claims that the tool is cross-platform and implies that it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux, but the graphic on the github README says it only works on Mac.
It looks hybrid human/LLM at best, but definitely possible that it's mostly human, from someone who is earnestly learning how to use "pitch" language. I got the feeling that some parts, like the bullet points, maybe originated from AI-generated documentation/readme's.
My intuition tells me that it could have been AI-generated, but if that's the case then it was heavily edited by a human. I think anyone who went through it for that would have changed other things as well. That's why I suspect it's pseudo-artificial pitch "coded" human writing with some (mostly, lightly edited) copy/paste of AI bullet points.
Then again, I can't find snippets of this language in the repo, so maybe I'm losing my discernment as LLMs advance (as well as the humans who are learning how to use them).
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#13Looks interesting but like every single one of these computer use apps I've seen, it's macOS only. Does anyone know of a linux one?
I don't think the accessibility story on Linux is comprehensive enough to make this possible unfortunately. Especially with Wayland. One advantage Mac apps have is they're all targeting the same underlying OS primitives, which is the layer their accessibility platform lives at.
There is AT-SPI2:
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#14Looks interesting but like every single one of these computer use apps I've seen, it's macOS only. Does anyone know of a linux one?
I don't think the accessibility story on Linux is comprehensive enough to make this possible unfortunately. Especially with Wayland. One advantage Mac apps have is they're all targeting the same underlying OS primitives, which is the layer their accessibility platform lives at.
Quote from a sibling comment:
- macOS: Accessibility API
- Windows: UI Automation
- Linux: AT-SPIRe: Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents
#15lahfir, I vouched your (currently still dead) comment because it was interesting to me. I expect the reason it is dead is that it seems LLM-generated (you "quietly" launched it on github? Who says that?). Also, your comment claims that the tool is cross-platform and implies that it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux, but the graphic on the github README says it only works on Mac.
Wouldn't the opposite be true? That an llm would use well-known terms for general purpose writing. I think it's much more likely that a human would remember 'silent' launch, or 'stealth' launch, and use silent as a substitute.
I feel very strongly that comment wasn't AI generated.
Also, there's a bunch of normal comments that seem to be wrongfully flagged.
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#16lahfir, I vouched your (currently still dead) comment because it was interesting to me. I expect the reason it is dead is that it seems LLM-generated (you "quietly" launched it on github? Who says that?). Also, your comment claims that the tool is cross-platform and implies that it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux, but the graphic on the github README says it only works on Mac.
3 fake comments in the thread also
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#17Looks very interesting. Especially like that language environment is abstracted away, through cli, such that one are not stuck with for example python to write your UI logic (or create your own cli wrapper around PyAutoGUI).
How can one help with implementing Linux and Windows support?
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#18lahfir, I vouched your (currently still dead) comment because it was interesting to me. I expect the reason it is dead is that it seems LLM-generated (you "quietly" launched it on github? Who says that?). Also, your comment claims that the tool is cross-platform and implies that it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux, but the graphic on the github README says it only works on Mac.
Why is Claude always pointing out or assuming what is done quietly?
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#19This is neat! Tried the finder example and was impressed how quick it was. I would love it if it can support ios simulator, iphone? I am using Maestro but it is so damn slow and seems to be token hungry.
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#20Interesting, would be nice to see a demo video apart from that unclear GIF