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#41
> As it runs, Autotab asks for clarifications and feedback. These learnings are accumulated into action memory—improving Autotab's world model, and allowing it to work reliably for hours on end.

Is "learning", used as a noun, a term of art in this field?

If not, my reactioning to that using is that it is a being bad English that causes producings of gratings on the ears.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#42

> As it runs, Autotab asks for clarifications and feedback. These learnings are accumulated into action memory—improving Autotab's world model, and allowing it to work reliably for hours on end. Is "learning", used as a noun, a term of art in this field? If not, my reactioning to that using is that it is a being bad English that causes producings of gratings on the ears.

It's honestly common industry slang and may be British English.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#43

> As it runs, Autotab asks for clarifications and feedback. These learnings are accumulated into action memory—improving Autotab's world model, and allowing it to work reliably for hours on end. Is "learning", used as a noun, a term of art in this field? If not, my reactioning to that using is that it is a being bad English that causes producings of gratings on the ears.

It's widely used.

Source: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22learnings+fr...

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#47
Really exciting to see this approach to automation and intent specification! We’ve been working with similar challenges at Origins AI, where we focus on deep tech solutions.

I can’t overstate how much having a robust system for breaking down tasks and iterating on them has helped us.

For one of our recent projects, we had to integrate complex workflows with third-party systems, and it was clear that reliability came down to how well we could define and refine intent over time.

I’m especially curious about your self-healing automations. That’s an area where we’ve found a lot of value using models that can adapt to subtle UI changes, but it’s always a tradeoff with latency. Would love to hear more about how you balance that in production!

Looking forward to trying Autotab and seeing how it compares with some of the internal tools we’ve built!

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#48

> As it runs, Autotab asks for clarifications and feedback. These learnings are accumulated into action memory—improving Autotab's world model, and allowing it to work reliably for hours on end. Is "learning", used as a noun, a term of art in this field? If not, my reactioning to that using is that it is a being bad English that causes producings of gratings on the ears.

It's honestly common industry slang and may be British English.

It's not really that common in British English. I've heard it from colleagues who learnt English in India.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#50
If I understand this correctly, it looks like the promise I saw in that 'Record Macro' button in my Excel toolbar in the 1990s might finally be coming to fruition in a wider and more capable sense! A pleasant surprise effect of the new AI situation if true.

I noticed in another comment that you said some steps can be made 'optional' (e.g. clicking through a modal). In my ancient Excel macro adventure, what I learned was that I had to tweak the heck out of the VBA code that Record button generated, which led to me just straight writing VBA for everything and eventually abandoning the Record feature entirely. I had a similar experience later on with AutoHotKey. What are the analogous aspects of Autotab to this? Also, to what extent is hand-manipulating the underlying automation possible and/or necessary to get optimal results?

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