Computer Use Agents
topic on 5 shows · 10 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Latent Space 
Lenny's Podcast 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
10 statements about Computer Use Agents, every show
Massad: Coding agents served as workarounds for lagging computer use models
“The reason Excel sheet agents got better is because coding got better. The reason, like, you know, some commerce agents are starting to work is because they can call APIs and they can, so coding turned out to be a bit of a hack or workaround”
Chen: Terminal coding agents are actually general-purpose computer-use agents
“So what would you think about it is are those coding agents are actually a computer use agent, but for the terminal. They're actually incredibly general.”
Siddharth: All digital knowledge work will be automated within 10 years
“The glimpse of the future that I see is that all knowledge work is going to be automated. If a human's job involves looking at a computer, analyzing what's on the screen, using different tools, using a keyboard and a mouse, it's going to be automated. It's onl…”
Hsu: Computer-use AI agents trail coding AI agents by one year
“I would say the computer use agents will probably trail the coding agents by maybe a year, right?”
Mytton: Web Traffic From Autonomous AI Agents Will Explode
“We're going to see an explosion in the traffic that's coming from these tools”
Swix: Deep research agents are the first agent category with true PMF
“What are the hard problems in this brand of agent that is like probably the first real product market fit agent. I will say more so than the computer use ones. This is the one where like, yeah, people are like, yeah, easily pays for 200 dollars worth a month w…”
Nguyen: Computer-use AI agents will learn and replicate individual browsing behaviors
“The computer use agents, like the model operating the desktop, and you can essentially think of like, you know, new kind of like Experience where the model can learn the way you browse. And from that preference, it can just like browse as just like you.”
Nguyen: Computer-use agent execution lagged two to three years behind ideation
“Computer using, oh, agents using desktop or like your computer is like the delegation part. Like when you might want to like delegate an agent to like order a book for me or like order a flight or like search for a flight and then order things for me. And I fe…”
Swix: Bearish on computer-use AI agents due to cost, speed, and accuracy
“I have been very bearish in computer use because they're slow. They're expensive. They're imprecise. Like the accuracy is horrible. Still, even with Anthropix new stuff, I'm really waiting to see what opening I might do to change my opinions.”