Maybe they want to compile the Apollo Guidance Computer source code...

https://www.softwareheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/...

The product appears to be similar to Microsoft's embattled Recall feature. In order to remember your digital life it takes frequent screenshots.

From an accessibility standpoint, yes. To be able to pattern match where you are in I.D.E without using an accessibility api

> To best support software engineers when they want to transcribe code from images, we fine-tuned our pre-processing pipeline to screenshots of code in IDEs, terminals, and online resources like YouTube videos and blog posts.

Even with these examples that seems like a very narrow use case.

I guess it would be excellent to evade security monitors to take unauthorized copies of your employers codebase.

It worries me that stuff like that becoming easier will lead to wacky data pipelines being normalized (pulling display output off systems and "scraping" it to get data, of dubious quality, versus just building a proper interface). The kind of crowd that likes "low code" tools like MSFT's "Power Automate" is going to love to make Rube Goldberg nightmares out of tools like this.

It fills me with a deep sadness that we created deterministic machines then, though laziness, exploit every opportunity to "contaminate" them with sloppy practices that make them produce output with the same fuzzy inaccuracy as human brains.

Old man yells a neural networks take: We're entering a "The Machine Stops" era where nobody is going to know how to formulate basic algorithms.

"We need to add some numbers. Let's point a camera at the input, OCR it, then feed it to an LLM that 'knows math'. Then we don't have to figure out an algorithm to add numbers."

I wish compute "cost" more so people would be forced to actually make efficient use of hardware. Sadly, I think it'll take mass societal and infrastructure collapse for that to happen. Until it does, though, let the excess compute flow freely!