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by 0xbadcafebee 34 days ago
What happens when you need to control something that isn't a web page?
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arjunchint 34 days ago
Honestly with Fable I think anyone is going to be able to reverse engineer a desktop app and get the coding agent to automate it.

The Codex computer use functionality actually uses OS level accessibility trees, so thats also possible without screenshots.

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0xbadcafebee 33 days ago
I can't tell if you're saying that you think every native app in the world can be vibe-replaced with a web app (they can't) or if you're saying it will be easy to vibe-code a reverse-engineered replacement for every native app (you can't)
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