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Comment by Flux159

This looks useful for people not using Claude Code, but I do think that the desktop example in the video could be a bit misleading (particularly for non-developers) - Claude is definitely not taking screenshots of that desktop & organizing, it's using normal file management cli tools. The reason seems a bit obvious - it's much easier to read file names, types, etc. via an "ls" than try to infer via an image.

But it also gets to one of Claude's (Opus 4.5) current weaknesses - image understanding. Claude really isn't able to understand details of images in the same way that people currently can - this is also explained well with an analysis of Claude Plays Pokemon https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6Lacc7wx4yYkBQ3r/insights-i.... I think over the next few years we'll probably see all major LLM companies work on resolving these weaknesses & then LLMs using UIs will work significantly better (and eventually get to proper video stream understanding as well - not 'take a screenshot every 500ms' and call that video understanding).

parent Flux159 9 months ago

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