Filling out school forms changed this user's mind on Google Astra's computer use
every · x · 2026-10-08
Every's newsletter recounts how Mike went from dismissing Google Astra's computer use to relying on it daily — after asking it to fill out his daughter's school forms. He then delegated bigger tasks: building 6 course presentations directly in Google Slides with hundreds of small edits, handling video edits, and proofreading his book's PDF by opening every link, verifying each destination matched surrounding text, and compiling a spreadsheet of issues. Boring, tedious office work turned out to be the sweet spot for agentic computer use.
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