Comment by verdverm
11 hours ago
Why not computer use or using the tools the user prefers instead? The primary office suites have APIs/CLIs now
11 hours ago
Why not computer use or using the tools the user prefers instead? The primary office suites have APIs/CLIs now
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.
I don't know how many times I've had to yell at codex or claude to use/implement headless versions of whatever it's doing at the time, interrupts me trying to multitask and play Battlefield or Factorio while they work :P
don't try Dyson sphere project (/s, its acrually really great), but maybe try x4 foundations, I'm contemplating how I might have my agent help manage my empire
That's where the CLIs come in for me, I'm not going to waste tokens on screenshots and input device manipulation
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/getting-start...
https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli