alt Hacker NewsI don't think Claude has this part yet:
> With background computer use, Codex can now use all of the apps on your computer by seeing, clicking, and typing with its own cursor. Multiple agents can work on your Mac in parallel, without interfering with your own work in other apps.
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ahmadyan • yesterday at 11:24 PM
They aquired Vercep, and their older agent Vy did have background agent. IIRC the recent computer-use agent in Claude is based on Vy, so i'm kinda surprised that feature didn't carry over to Claude desktop app.
iknowstuff • today at 1:57 AM
Imagine where we’d be if the restrictive iOS model was dominant in all computing. We’d never get anything like this
>background computer use
How does that even work technically? macOS doesn't support multiple cursors. On native Cocoa apps you can pass input to a window without raising via command+click so possibly they synthesized those events, but fewer and fewer apps support that these days. And AppleScript is basically dead, so they can't be using that either.
I also read they acquired the Sky team (who I think were former Apple employees). No wonder they were able to pull of something so slick.