Watch an AI agent teach itself to type in 40 minutes, complete with long-press mishaps
ZeYanjie · x · 2026-09-13
Developer kaiwynd asked the Astra assistant to express itself via a keyboard. With no explicit instruction, the agent spent roughly 40 minutes — complete with accidental long presses and lots of backspacing — and eventually taught itself to type, shown in a 20x-speed video. A vivid demo of trial-and-error learning in computer-use agents.
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