performance is quite impressive given that its 3x cheaper than 5.5
Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
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#22Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive. I guess if you're trying to get people to tokenmaxx it may look like a valid strategy, but ain't no way this will be delightful to users. I think it's a symptom of just not understanding how LLMs should interface with the OS because we're still in their early days. Eventually there'll be an iPhone moment for the ergonomics of LLM usage…
The “correct”, elegant way for AI to interact with existing software would take decades and billions of dollars to build. Someone would have to do the hard work of building new APIs, solving decades of accessibility issues, etc.
Or you can show an AI screenshots and ask it where to click.
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#23Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive. I guess if you're trying to get people to tokenmaxx it may look like a valid strategy, but ain't no way this will be delightful to users. I think it's a symptom of just not understanding how LLMs should interface with the OS because we're still in their early days. Eventually there'll be an iPhone moment for the ergonomics of LLM usage…
The “correct”, elegant way for AI to interact with existing software would take decades and billions of dollars to build. Someone would have to do the hard work of building new APIs, solving decades of accessibility issues, etc. Or you can show an AI screenshots and ask it where to click.
I disagree if your application is networked. Most SaaS is built on RESTful APIs that can be converted trivially into interfaces / contracts for tool use.
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#24I wonder if it will be better at building TUI's. It has been absolutely abysmal at interacting with them and building them
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#25There's still no MCP support in the Gemini app, which is very useful to get various pieces of info as a user just via chatting. For example I recently wanted to get an Airbnb and wanted to filter by specific criteria including house image analysis and Gemini couldn't do it so I had to do it in Codex.
I'm fairly convinced Claude's strongest point is the app. AI users aren't anywhere near as mature or smart as youtube/hn would have folks believe. The claude app is amazing for bridging that gap.
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#26Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive. I guess if you're trying to get people to tokenmaxx it may look like a valid strategy, but ain't no way this will be delightful to users. I think it's a symptom of just not understanding how LLMs should interface with the OS because we're still in their early days. Eventually there'll be an iPhone moment for the ergonomics of LLM usage…
Computer use is a great idea. It gets the job done when nothing else will.
If you're a person trying to get their job done at a big company, but half your job is in 1-2 proprietary tools or is stuck behind an API you can't program against, computer use can allow you, a non-techie, to do your job more efficiently.
I think it's an awesome way to circumvent gate keepers and the IT department to let people accomplish their goals.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive. And yet having an agent able yo use a computer on your behalf is really useful. Recently I gave a Nix OS vm to my hermes agent and it has been a good experience. I don't really care if destroy the machine I can just rollback to an earlier version, and for any meaningful data he creates for me I make sure he creates a repo, commit and…
> And yet having an agent able yo use a computer on your behalf is really useful. It is, but there's no need for it to be viewing your screen, browsing websites and watching ads. That stuff is for humans, not for LLMs.
Sure, I don't want an agent watching MY screen. That's why I gave him his own environment, and pretty quickly he discovered that you can open chrome and make it render to a framebuffer, this way he is able to 'view' the website. And apparently with this he is able to bypass a lot of 'anti-bot' measures.
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#28People using google’s models: am I holding it wrong or are the guardrails really overtuned?
I had the dubious pleasure of testing gemini of late and I kept running into refusals. How do I transfer a sim number from one provider to another? No. What should I consider when making backups on ntfs less prone to data loss and more bitrot resistant? No. Evaluate this piece of code? No.
I’m not sure if it’s cold feet from the mythos situation or what, but it reminds me of the dark days where you couldn’t use ai for much of anything. But then I go to chatgpt 5.5 and it does mostly everything I want outside of the usual cybersecurity boogeyman that you run into now and then.
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#29Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive. I guess if you're trying to get people to tokenmaxx it may look like a valid strategy, but ain't no way this will be delightful to users. I think it's a symptom of just not understanding how LLMs should interface with the OS because we're still in their early days. Eventually there'll be an iPhone moment for the ergonomics of LLM usage…
> Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive. And yet having an agent able yo use a computer on your behalf is really useful. Recently I gave a Nix OS vm to my hermes agent and it has been a good experience. I don't really care if destroy the machine I can just rollback to an earlier version, and for any meaningful data he creates for me I make sure he creates a repo, commit and…
> And yet having an agent able yo use a computer on your behalf is really useful.
I honestly cannot think of a single use case
Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
#30Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive. I guess if you're trying to get people to tokenmaxx it may look like a valid strategy, but ain't no way this will be delightful to users. I think it's a symptom of just not understanding how LLMs should interface with the OS because we're still in their early days. Eventually there'll be an iPhone moment for the ergonomics of LLM usage…
Spreadsheet is such a terrible idea. It may look like a valid tool, but ain't no way it's delightful to users. Most of the time people need a database instead. Eventually there'll be an iPhone moment for this.
Meanwhile, the entire world economy: