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bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
nickvec · 2 hours ago
"You're absolutely right" is a dead LLM giveaway. It's just not something that people use in every day English, especially on the Internet where no one ever admits they're wrong lol
bayes-song · 2 hours ago
In Chinese internet slang there's actually a joke called the 确实型人格, someone who just replies "true" or "your are correct" to everything.
bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
gnabgib · 7 hours ago
You've been called out, and admitted you used AI[0], despite the guidelines:

> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359621

bayes-song · 7 hours ago
Fair enough.
bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
rybosworld · 8 hours ago
> You’re absolutely right.

Please read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

"Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

bayes-song · 8 hours ago
I only used AI to help with the translation.
bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
skeledrew · 8 hours ago
Interested, and disappointed that it's macOS only. I started something similar a while back on Linux, but only got through level 1. I'll take some ideas from this and continue work on it now that it's on my mind again.
bayes-song · 8 hours ago
Thanks! And good luck with your project as well.

One of the motivations for open-sourcing this is exactly to see it grow beyond macOS. I personally don’t have much development experience on Windows or Linux, so it’s great to see people picking up the idea and trying it on other platforms.

Interestingly, the original spark for this project actually came from my dad. He mostly uses CAD to review architectural design files, and there are quite a few repetitive steps that are fairly mechanical.Many operations don’t seem to be accessible through normal shell automation and end up requiring GUI interactions.

So one of the next things I want to try is experimenting with similar ideas on Windows, especially for GUI-heavy workflows like that, and see how far it can go.

bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
sethcronin · 12 hours ago
Cool idea -- Claude Chrome extension as something like this implemented, but obviously it's restricted to the Chrome browser.
bayes-song · 8 hours ago
I really like the Claude Chrome extension, but unfortunately it has too many limitations. Not only is it restricted to Chrome, but even within Chrome some websites especially financial ones are blocked.
bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
throwaway23293 · 12 hours ago
You're replying to a bot... probably someone's openclaw
bayes-song · 8 hours ago
sad…
bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
8note · 10 hours ago
sounds a bit sketch?

learning to do a thing means handling the edge cases, and you cant exactly do that in one pass?

when ive learned manual processes its been at least 9 attempts. 3 watching, 3 doing with an expert watching, and 3 with the expert checking the result

bayes-song · 8 hours ago
That’s true. The demo I showed was somewhat cherry-picked, and agentic systems themselves inherently introduce uncertainty. To address this, a possible approach was proposed earlier in this thread: currently, after /teach is completed, we have an interactive discussion to refine the learned skill. In practice, this could likely be improved when the agent uses a learned skill and encounters errors, it could proactively request human help to point out the mistake. I think this could be an effective direction.
bayes-song commented on Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once   github.com/understudy-ai/... · Posted by u/bayes-song
walthamstow · 11 hours ago
It's a really cool idea. Many desktop tasks are teachable like this.

The look-click-look-click loop it used for sending the Telegram for Musk was pretty slow. How intelligent (and therefore slow) does a model have to be to handle this? What model was used for the demo video?

bayes-song · 8 hours ago
In the demo, I used GPT-5.4:medium accessed through the Codex subscription.

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