computer use agents

also referred to as: computer use agent · computer-use agents

5 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 1, 2025 by Karina Nguyen · across every show →

Everything said about computer use agents, oldest first

Feb 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Karina Nguyen Feb 1, 2025 ▶ 52:28 The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
Feb 1, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Fanelli: Computer use agents will likely automate expense reports within a year
“It's not, you cannot actually do it today, but it feels like a tractable problem, you know, that probably by the end of the year we should be able to do it.”
Alessio Fanelli Feb 1, 2025 ▶ 57:43 The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
Feb 1, 2025 bearish
Opinion
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.”
Shawn Wang Feb 1, 2025 ▶ 55:02 The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
Feb 18, 2025 bullish
Opinion
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…”
Shawn Wang Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 58:12 Why is everyone cloning Deep Research?
Dec 26, 2025 positive
Insight
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.”
Bill Chen Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 24:42 ⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
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