Computer use is now where coding agents were in Nov 2025, says agentic tooling author
austinvhuang · x · 2026-09-05
Austin Huang argues that computer use is now at the same inflection point coding agents occupied around November 2025. Drawing on his 2023 work with WoB simulations, he recalls that computer use was beyond anything but research papers back then; even the widely admired Adept AI demos weren't enough for productization. Now, he believes, the timing is finally right.
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