Dev burns 2 days on basic email automation with Google Astra, blocked by CAPTCHAs and logins
AjdDavison · x · 2026-09-10
- Developer Mark Cummins spent 2 days trying to get Google's Astra to do extremely basic email automation; CAPTCHAs and login walls blocked it from doing half of what he wanted.
- His take: AI will explode in low-friction directions (like mathematics), but most of the economy is high-friction for LLMs — a crisp articulation of the real agent bottleneck: not model capability but web friction.
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