eastendguy

100% this. I am using the open source Ui.vision to automate some business tasks. Works well, but only 10% of the work is for automating the main workflow, 90% of the work goes into error and edge case handling (e. g. Internet down, website (to scrape data from) down, some input data has typos or the wrong date format, etc).

A human can work around all these error cases once she encounters them. Current RPA tools like Uipath or ui.vision need explicit programming for every potential situation. And I see no indication that Claude is doing any better than this.

For starters, for visual automation to work reliably the OCR quality needs to improve further and be 100% reliable. Even in that very basic "AI" area, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini are good, but not good enough yet.

"there’s not much left to innovate"

???

Totally disagree. Just one example: Tesla has only two global mass market models (3+Y). There is plenty of room to innovate on this topic alone. Model 2? Model whatever. Nothing new in years.

Wow, what a click-baity misleading headline. Key point is that this number is going down:

"The big news is that more and more people are opting to trade their Teslas for an EV from a legacy automaker"

This might be me in a few years. Tesla stopped being innovative years ago. No surprise, its CEO is high on drugs most of the time and spends his days (and nights) posting childish memes.

If browser extensions could access the local LLMs - Now THAT would be a very cool feature.

Imagine what (test) automation extensions like Selenium IDE or Ui.vision could do then. Or translation extensions. Or.... so many cool options.

> and debug if it errors or isn't what you wanted.

That is a potential problem Because at this point the user will still need good HTML/Selenium/coding knowledge to debug. We ran into the same issue using chatgpt generated scripts for ui.vision. Once a QA person has to figure out why some generated code does not work, it becomes a hassle and removes any initial advantage over the classic record & replay approach.

And your source for this statement is which Telegram group?

What has a "German copyright cease and desist" to do with privacy, or the lack of privacy? And who is "them"? A few sources and details instead of just ranting would be useful.

Ui.Vision dekstop automation is cross-platform works on Linux and macOS (and Windows). It is not exactly the same, though.

Wow, Twitter is collapsing much faster than I expected. With PG and some other high-profile accounts gone, many will loose interest in their Twitter feed fast. Rinse and repeat.

> I could charge at home, but don’t have a garage

No problem (why should it?)

> BEVs are improving quickly so what I buy might be superseded soon

That WAS my concern, but EV resale value is amazingly stable, better than most ICE in my area (EU). After all, EVs are still cars, so innovation cycles are long (many years).

Why? FSD even in its current state will save lives. Think of it as driver-assist on steroids.