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Comment by Centigonal

2 days ago

As nawgz said, the applications they are automating are often closed-source binary blobs. They can't enable scripting without some kind of RPA or AI agent.

Correct. In the RPA world, if there's an API available, or even a sqlite server you can tap into, you absolutely should go directly to the source. Emulating human mouse and keyboard is an absolute last resort for getting data across the application boundary, for when those direct apis are unavailable.