@swyx @jluan CUA is actually incredible with the right harness in place
A team I know is building CUA boxes for businesses and they get surprising results like this all the time
Many users are excited about rapid Computer Use Agent progress with GPT 5.6 because it enables real nontechnical workflows like invoicing and QA automation despite ongoing skepticism.
Based on 9 visible X reactions from 13 accounts; directional sample.
@swyx @jluan CUA is actually incredible with the right harness in place
A team I know is building CUA boxes for businesses and they get surprising results like this all the time
someone just told me about this take* on CUA
this is one of those gell mann moments for me lol. i've been watching computer use since World of Bits (Shi, fan, karpathy, hernandez & liang 2017). we were the first technical pod to interview @jluan about Adept's work three years ago, we were there in the @AnthropicAI building when they first launched Computer Use 2 years ago, I fanboyed over Claude Cowork in our @felixrieseberg pod 3 months ago, and we ran our first full computer use track at @aidotengineer ft. @DhruvBatra_ @proceduralia @francedot 3 weeks ago.
GPT 5.6 + Superapp is even better at CUA than everything i just mentioned. excited for our @AriX podcast to discuss the @skybysoftware story and Codex progress.
if you actually use these things as intensely as we do, CUA is progressing so, so incredibly fast. i have asked my nontechnical team to CUA as much as possible, all their knowledge work with signing up for random payment and invoicing portals and speaker and sponsor and attendee and vendor and union data requests. if you found yourself nodding along to this take below, you are so not up to date that you don't know what you don't know, and underestimating capabilities is quite a dangerous category error if you are doing any ai decisionmaking.
*i admire dwarkesh alot; only criticizing one single take, not the message nor the overall enterprise, screenshot only to share
someone just told me about this take* on CUA
this is one of those gell mann moments for me lol. i've been watching computer use since World of Bits (Shi, fan, karpathy, hernandez & liang 2017). we were the first technical pod to interview @jluan about Adept's work three years ago, we were there in the @AnthropicAI building when they first launched Computer Use 2 years ago, I fanboyed over Claude Cowork in our @felixrieseberg pod 3 months ago, and we ran our first full computer use track at @aidotengineer ft. @DhruvBatra_ @proceduralia @francedot 3 weeks ago.
GPT 5.6 + Superapp is even better at CUA than everything i just mentioned. excited for our @AriX podcast to discuss the @skybysoftware story and Codex progress.
if you actually use these things as intensely as we do, CUA is progressing so, so incredibly fast. i have asked my nontechnical team to CUA as much as possible, all their knowledge work with signing up for random payment and invoicing portals and speaker and sponsor and attendee and vendor and union data requests. if you found yourself nodding along to this take below, you are so not up to date that you don't know what you don't know, and underestimating capabilities is quite a dangerous category error if you are doing any ai decisionmaking.
*i admire dwarkesh alot; only criticizing one single take, not the message nor the overall enterprise, screenshot only to share
Hard agree with @swyx — computer-use / browser-use capabilities are progressing *very* quickly and it's a mistake to believe otherwise.
My talk at @aiDotEngineer laid the bull-case:
- most of the web will not have APIs (infra changes slowly)
- CUAs will agentify the web
Many users are excited about rapid Computer Use Agent progress with GPT 5.6 because it enables real nontechnical workflows like invoicing and QA automation despite ongoing skepticism.
Based on 9 visible X reactions from 13 accounts; directional sample.
Hard agree with @swyx — computer-use / browser-use capabilities are progressing *very* quickly and it's a mistake to believe otherwise.
My talk at @aiDotEngineer laid the bull-case:
- most of the web will not have APIs (infra changes slowly)
- CUAs will agentify the web
