Computer-use agents: magic in demos, but what actually survives daily use?
Grand-Produce-8527 · reddit · 2026-09-09
After months of experimenting with Claude computer use and browser agents, a developer finds a persistent gap between demos and reality: logins trigger bot detection and CAPTCHAs, public data is faster via curl/Playwright, high-stakes sites aren't worth unsupervised LLM clicks, and multi-step no-API tasks tend to break around step 6. Candidate real use cases proposed: internal admin panels without APIs, repetitive vendor form filling, smoke-test QA, change-watching pages with no feed, personal admin (insurance claims, DMV, refunds), and legacy desktop apps. They also ask whether a persistent real browser profile is the difference between working and being instantly blocked.
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