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Comment · 1 year ago
They've improved performance dramatically in the last few weeks, might have fixed your issues.
Comment · 1 year ago
Cursor has the best Tab model, and I feel like their lead there has kept growing - they're doing some really cool things there. https://cursor.com/blog/tab-rl

I wonder how much the methods/systems/data transfer, if they can pull off the same with their agentic coding model that would be exciting.

Comment · 1 year ago
Coming soon! Thanks for commenting, helps inform prioritization :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry about that! I don't see any matching errors from 2 hours ago in our logs - if you reach out to the contact@ email address with the email you used in Autotab, I'd be happy to take a closer look
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, Autotab can reason over the state of applications and the data it is seeing. You can also teach it to do certain steps only in specific cases.

If you wanted Autotab to reconcile payments you would teach it to go to wherever the payments are listed eg a banking app. There you would have it iterate through the unreconciled payments. For each payment you’d have Autotab go to the invoicing tool and look up any details from the payment (eg IBAN, information from the reference number, amount, etc) to find the matching customer and invoice. This is where most of the reasoning happens - you can teach Autotab what counts as sufficiently close to be a match with prompts and examples. Then you can have Autotab mark the invoice as paid and go back to the payment app and mark the payment with the invoice number it grabbed from the matched payment.

Comment · 1 year ago
If by pixel level you mean vision-first understanding and control of the UI then you’ve misunderstood my comment - Autotab primarily uses vision to reason about screens and take action.

You can also use Anthropic’s Computer Use model directly in Autotab via the instruct feature - our users find it most helpful for handling specific subtasks that are complex to spell out, like picking a date in a calendar.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Quoting my cofounder from another thread:

For 2FA, different users take different approaches. Everything from teaching Autotab to pull auth codes from their email, to setting intervention requests at the top of their skills, to enterprise integrations that we support with SSO and dedicated machine accounts.

Autotab also has the ability to securely sync session data from your local app to cloud instances. This usually removes the need for doing 2FA again for sites with “remember this device” functionality.

We can enable captcha solving for select customers, but don’t allow that in the public app to prevent abuse.

Comment · 1 year ago
Assuming the bank’s websites look totally different from one another, you’d need open ended exploration to data extraction. We’ve focused more on reliability for repetitive tasks over flexibility for open ended tasks historically, but models are getting good enough that this tradeoff is diminishing. Expect updates from us on this front soon.

You can schedule skills in Autotab to run at arbitrary frequency.

Comment · 1 year ago
Agree on the tradeoff between ability to handle novel situations and speed/cost. Autotab uses a “ladder of compute” system that escalates to the minimal level of compute required to solve a given subtask. I wrote a longer comment about this on another thread
Comment · 1 year ago
Indeed! A little secret: Internally we call the skills/workflows in Autotab macros :)

Currently there is a bit of a learning curve for training Autotab to be really reliable in hard cases. We expect we’ll be able to decrease significantly in the next few months, as we get models to do more of the thinking about how to best codify a given task solution/workflow. As an intuition pump for why we expect such rapid progress: in the scenario you described you’d just have a model write the VBA code for you.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks! We currently have to manually add Chrome extensions on our side, but plan on supporting users installing arbitrary extensions in the future. So far we’ve found that most apps offer web UIs with the same functionality as the extension and Autotab can just use those.

What extension would you like to automate?

Comment · 1 year ago
We are hiring. Feel free to reach out at [email protected]
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, proxies are something we can enable for select customers. If your use case requires them, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

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