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Re: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

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(Just using the browserbase demo)

Knowing it's technically possible is one thing, but giving it a short command and seeing it go log in to a site, scroll around, reply to posts, etc. is eerie.

Also it tied me at wordle today, making the same mistake I did on the second to lass guess. Too bad you can't talk to it while it's working.

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#52
Not great at Google Sheets. Repeatedly overwrites all previous columns while trying to populate new columns.

> I am back in the Google Sheet. I previously typed "Zip Code" in F1, but it looks like I selected cell A1 and typed "A". I need to correct that first. I'll re-type "Zip Code" in F1 and clear A1. It seems I clicked A1 (y=219, x=72) then F1 (y=219, x=469) and typed "Zip Code", but then maybe clicked A1 again.

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isnt it coming from browserbase container?

Interestingly the IP I got when prompting `what is my IP` was `73.120.125.54` - which is a residential comcast IP.

Looks like browserbase has proxies, which will be often residential IPs.

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It is actually quite good at following instructions, but I tried clicking on job application links, and since they open in a new window, it couldn't find the new window. I suppose it might be an issue with BrowserBase, or just the way this demo was set up.

are you running into this issue on gemini.browserbase.com or the google/computer-use-preview github repo?

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Why do you think we have fully self driving cars instead of just more simplistic beacon systems? Why doesn't McDonald's have a fully automated kitchen? New technology is slow due to risk aversion, it's very rare for people to just tear up what they already have to re-implement new technology from the ground up. We always have to shoe-horn new technology into old systems to prove it first. There are just so many facto…

About your self-driving car point, I feel like the approach I'm seeing is akin to designing a humanoid robot that uses its robotic feet to control the brake and accelerator pedals, and its hand to move the gear selector.

I could add self-driving to my existing fleet? Sounds intriguing.

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Every website and application is just layers of data. Playwright and similar tools have options for taking Snapshots that contain data like text, forms, buttons, etc that can be interacted with on a site. All the calls a website makes are just APIs. Even a native application is made up of WinForms that can be inspected.

Ah, so now you're turning LLMs into web browsers capable of parsing Javascript to figure out what a human might be looking at, let's see how many levels deep we can go.

Just inspect the memory content of the process. It's all just numbers at the end of the day & algorithms do not have any understanding of what the numbers mean other than generating other numbers in response to the input numbers. For the record I agree w/ OP, screenshots are not a good interface for the same reasons that trains, subways, & dedicates lanes for mass transit are obviously superior to cars & their associated attendant headaches.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

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This will never hit a production enterprise system without some form of hooks/callbacks in place to instill governance. Obviously much harder with UI vs agent events similar to the below. https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks https://google.github.io/adk-docs/callbacks/

Hi! I work in identity products at Browserbase. I’ve spent a fair amount of time lately thinking about how to layer RBAC across the web.

Do you think callbacks are how this gets done?

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