Comment by nomel

I don't think that's anywhere near equivalent. That's for reading and writing Microsoft Office docs. It has no office functionality. LibreOffice has a full API, for example to run calculations on spreadsheets [1].

The goal of bringing in dependencies is so you don't have to duplicate the functionality, in this case, crafted over decades of effort.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/SDKGuide/C...

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If you've ever actually gone down this route you will try exactly this realize how much of a cluster f these products are and just use libre.

I did the exact same thing in my AI system. Spent an ENOURMOUS amount of time trying everything I could and in the end libre was the only thing even somewhat functional.

Easily 2 months of my life lost to these god forsaken systems. APIs and CLIs sound reasonable until you actually attempt anything in this space.

Computer use is exactly the same thing. Go try this: go to a google doc and dev tools check out the dom and now do the same for a word doc. Eye gouging pain of trying to get anything to work.

Computer use is slow and can take control of the application focus. I’ll be doing things while Claude runs in the background. Suddenly it decides to open the app and try to do something + screenshot it.